Yourself many many years from now

[braluk]

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So, you're in your M1-4 years, still a student, gray walking in, grayer walking out. How different do you see yourself 15, 20, 30 years from now?
The reason I ask is that Ive worked under many doctors and surgeons who are the cream of the crop, crisp suits at dinner parties with high profile guests, where golfing and maybe tennis is a must. For me personally, I'd like to say that in 30-40 years, I'm still going to kick back a beer, still be ridiculously sarcastic and crass, and go crazy over sunday for football and your other "crass" sports. However, circumstances might change if my circle of close friends begin to shift to the snootier types (and not necessarily bad). Hard to project, but how do you guys see yourself later on?

 

[CoryChevalier]

ehh nothing wrong with tennis....I know some pretty crass tennis players. Me and my friend play on a grass court that we keep up on his lawn; pretty fun.

 

[braluk]

Nothing wrong with it i suppose, but a big leap from one thing to another. Im talking strictly about the stereotyped wealthy types. The point i was trying to make is, if medicine and its lifestyle and wealth will change us as people in such a drastic way that we wouldn't even realize it.

 

[Megalofyia]

Given how much I've changed in the last 10 years and how much parents have changed since they were young and the rest of my family I'm going to guess that in 15, 20, and 30 years from now I'll still be a beer drinking girl who can be pretty crass and and def sarcastic. Possibly I'll use more salt on my food than I do now since salt use in my family seems to increase exponentially with age.

I dont like golf ... its too slow. I'll take hockey.

 

[deleted77919]

I imagine the people that end up as you described had a predisposition to be the stereotype. Medicine is not what shaped their choice in social activities.

I know plenty of physicians who work all the time and don't bother with things like golf (why relax when I could be cutting!), and I also know plenty who are laid back and watch football/drink beer, and then the ones that fall into the catagory you describe.

Personally my fantasy is to escape to a log cabin in Alaska and do ER in Anchorage or rural FP in the middle of no-where (at least, this is the favorite plan of the month). Regardless, country clubs aren't really on my radar and I doubt that will change (not to say the country club scene is bad or wrong . . . just not my idea of a good time).

 

[Hodad]

Remain just as sarcastic and crass? Hell, I want to be more sarcastic and crass.

As to myself, ideally, I will have my own sailboat and medicine will be a means to support my hobbies.

 

[jonathon]

Where do you see yourself in the future?

10 years: being a genetic counselor specialized in rare genetic syndromes (such as acardia...the most lethal genetic syndrome out there -patients often lack a chest and head) and practicing with prenatal, pediatric, newborn screening, teratology, AFP/TripScm, and adult disorders.

Still living life the same. Enjoy fall Saturdays for college football. Struggling to make it financially...dang school loans.

15 years: don’t really see any change from listed above.

30 years: hopefully will be setting up for retirement.

I don’t care to move to the very high cost of living areas in this country as I don’t find the high cost of living to be worth the extra things that come with places like New York, San Fran, etc. I prefer just to take a visit there once in a great while to get a taste of what those cities have to offer. Besides, there are to many people living in those cities per square feet.

I don’t really see my personality changing much. I might become more of an extrovert then I am right now though. I will still love football and not care much about any other sport.

I will still not judge others based on their job and education level. Judging others based on the job they have, how much money they make, and what education level they have is just not worth it. Live is about being happy and having fun and not being the richest on the planet and thinking you are God’s gift to people. Once you are dead you can’t take the fame and money with you. Yes it would be nice to see your name printed in books for ages after you are dead, but in reality only those who make huge discoveries are the ones that have their name passed on from generation to generation. Some director of a Radiology department is not going to be famous 180 years from now unless he/she performs a first of its kind of surgery or makes a HUGE scientific discovery. Just enjoy life and don’t worry about people who think they are better then others around them. Most often those kind of people are insecure and try to cover it up by driving rich cars and acting rich

 

[StevenRF]

10-15: Hopefully finishing up fellowship after a surgical residency (maybe neuro or ortho) and have all my loans paid off (crosses fingers). I hope somehow I can save up enough to get a small beach shack so I can go surf before work and come home and chill in a hammock or jacuzzi => beach party🙂 .

30: I hope Im still alive lol. Someone told me neuro's only live till 56 on average. Maybe I'll do well enough to have my own practice. I kinda want to one day start a company so I have an opportunity to just be one of those eccentric inventors.

Never played golf, way too expensive. Waves are free.

 

[NonTradMed]

I hope to become a competent doctor working at a practice that'll allow me to have a life outside of my job....want kids and husband. I hope to still find time to read and watch TV like now. 😀

I'm also hoping to make enough to hire someone to cook. I can't imagine cooking everyday (even when alternating with husband).

 

[AmoryBlaine]

10-15: Hopefully finishing up fellowship after a surgical residency (maybe neuro or ortho) and have all my loans paid off (crosses fingers). I hope somehow I can save up enough to get a small beach shack so I can go surf before work and come home and chill in a hammock or jacuzzi => beach party🙂 .

30: I hope Im still alive lol. Someone told me neuro's only live till 56 on average. Maybe I'll do well enough to have my own practice. I kinda want to one day start a company so I have an opportunity to just be one of those eccentric inventors.

Never played golf, way too expensive. Waves are free.

Those aren't fellowships of gensurg, they're seperate matches.

 

[Analyzethis]

Where do you see yourself in the future?

10 years: being a genetic counselor specialized in rare genetic syndromes (such as acardia...the most lethal genetic syndrome out there -patients often lack a chest and head) and practicing with prenatal, pediatric, newborn screening, teratology, AFP/TripScm, and adult disorders.

Still living life the same. Enjoy fall Saturdays for college football. Struggling to make it financially...dang school loans.

15 years: don’t really see any change from listed above.

30 years: hopefully will be setting up for retirement.

I don’t care to move to the very high cost of living areas in this country as I don’t find the high cost of living to be worth the extra things that come with places like New York, San Fran, etc. I prefer just to take a visit there once in a great while to get a taste of what those cities have to offer. Besides, there are to many people living in those cities per square feet.

I don’t really see my personality changing much. I might become more of an extrovert then I am right now though. I will still love football and not care much about any other sport.

I will still not judge others based on their job and education level. Judging others based on the job they have, how much money they make, and what education level they have is just not worth it. Live is about being happy and having fun and not being the richest on the planet and thinking you are God’s gift to people. Once you are dead you can’t take the fame and money with you. Yes it would be nice to see your name printed in books for ages after you are dead, but in reality only those who make huge discoveries are the ones that have their name passed on from generation to generation. Some director of a Radiology department is not going to be famous 180 years from now unless he/she performs a first of its kind of surgery or makes a HUGE scientific discovery. Just enjoy life and don’t worry about people who think they are better then others around them. Most often those kind of people are insecure and try to cover it up by driving rich cars and acting rich

Yup that makes perfect sense-you'll be living in smaller town america and see maybe 1 case in 30 years of acardia-yet will be an "expert" on the disease-Id say any "expert" on things like that rare live in the big cities-hate to break it to ya-nice pipedream but you fit in with most docs and lack some goodcommon sense

 

[jonathon]

LOL. You don’t know what you are talking about. The incidence of acardia is so rare that it does not matter where you live. By being an expert in rare syndromes, I will have people flying patients to see me or having video conferences. This is why you make contracts you know. But I don’t think you understand that. I can make contracts with hospitals/clinics and certain physicians for when they have patients who have a genetic condition and need counseling or want counseling, they send the patient to me or I go and visit the patient.

I won’t necessarily be living in smaller town. You don’t even know where I live right now. LOL. I don’t live in a small town right now. LOL. I live in a city right now with a population of 400,000 + (when adding the suburb population with the city). That is by all means not a small city. Just because I chose not to live in southern California where all you do is see cement from south of San Diego all the way up the coast line north of Los Angelas does not mean I want to live in a village in northern Wisconsin.

Who cares if I don’t want to live in San Fransico, Los Angelas, New York, Detroit, Baltimore, Boston, Atlanta, Miami, and so forth. There is nothing wrong with living in Madison, Wisconsin, suburbs of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Oklahoma City, Salt Lake City, and so forth.

Yup that makes perfect sense-you'll be living in smaller town america and see maybe 1 case in 30 years of acardia-yet will be an "expert" on the disease-Id say any "expert" on things like that rare live in the big cities-hate to break it to ya-nice pipedream but you fit in with most docs and lack some goodcommon sense

 

[Analyzethis]

LOL. You don’t know what you are talking about. The incidence of acardia is so rare that it does not matter where you live. By being an expert in rare syndromes, I will have people flying patients to see me or having video conferences. This is why you make contracts you know. But I don’t think you understand that. I can make contracts with hospitals/clinics and certain physicians for when they have patients who have a genetic condition and need counseling or want counseling, they send the patient to me or I go and visit the patient.

I won’t necessarily be living in smaller town. You don’t even know where I live right now. LOL. I don’t live in a small town right now. LOL. I live in a city right now with a population of 400,000 + (when adding the suburb population with the city). That is by all means not a small city. Just because I chose not to live in southern California where all you do is see cement from south of San Diego all the way up the coast line north of Los Angelas does not mean I want to live in a village in northern Wisconsin.

Who cares if I don’t want to live in San Fransico, Los Angelas, New York, Detroit, Baltimore, Boston, Atlanta, Miami, and so forth. There is nothing wrong with living in Madison, Wisconsin, suburbs of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Oklahoma City, Salt Lake City, and so forth.

ok dude well see how many wordly patients will want to make a 3 connection flight to see you in podunk WI, when they could see any top geneticist in one of the big prominent cities-unless you are going to be so bold to say you are going to be the only one with the skills to tell a mother that the baby will have no head or trunk-takes lotta work for that. And who would refer to podunk when they could refer to their colleagues at MGS, Yale, NYU, Columbia, UCSF, Stanford, UCLA etc etc-oh no wait-lets not refer to any of these guys down teh street-their is this guy in podunk that we will ship our already grieving, likely poor patient off to-good one! good luck with that!

 

[SoCuteMD]

ok dude well see how many wordly patients will want to make a 3 connection flight to see you in podunk WI, when they could see any top geneticist in one of the big prominent cities-unless you are going to be so bold to say you are going to be the only one with the skills to tell a mother that the baby will have no head or trunk-takes lotta work for that. And who would refer to podunk when they could refer to their colleagues at MGS, Yale, NYU, Columbia, UCSF, Stanford, UCLA etc etc-oh no wait-lets not refer to any of these guys down teh street-their is this guy in podunk that we will ship our already grieving, likely poor patient off to-good one! good luck with that!

I don't know WHAT your problem is, but you need to get over it. We are ALL allowed our dreams and aspirations and the chance to make them happen. Perhaps you are just bitter that yours didn't pan out, but there's no need to take it out on an Internet forums on people you've never met.

 

[Medpilot]

Personally my fantasy is to escape to a log cabin in Alaska and do ER in Anchorage or rural FP in the middle of no-where (at least, this is the favorite plan of the month). Regardless, country clubs aren't really on my radar and I doubt that will change (not to say the country club scene is bad or wrong . . . just not my idea of a good time).

Doing "rounds" with a 500 mile radius of the best landscape ever! Anywhere that I can make a light aircraft my office sounds like heaven to me!

 

[StevenRF]

Those aren't fellowships of gensurg, they're seperate matches.

I know this. Thats why I put neuro or ortho after surgical residency.

 

[Pemulis]

How different do you see yourself 15, 20, 30 years from now?

That's easy. Fatter, balder, with slightly more occluded arteries and perhaps a touch of prostate disease.

 

[braluk]

man, i shoulda put in the disclaimer, nothing with medicine involved, just yourself as a product of medicine. i guess some personalities are starting to take shape now lol

 

[Moto]

Same lifestyle & hobbies, only better traveled I hope. I told my friends that they are welcome to have a "snob intervention" if I become one of 'those' doctors.

 

[braluk]

i can honestly see myself still posting on SDN once in a while

 

[jonathon]

I'm sure there will come a time where you no longer visit this website. The same goes for everyone that visits this website. There will most likely come a time where every person who posts on this website will eventually stop spending time on here.

I'm sure there will be a new bread of characters that will take over the website in due time and then they will eventually leave in due time.

Once I get admitted into the graduate program I want to go into, I'm going to develop a website for my professional career (already starting it with powerpoint presentations about every genetic syndrome known...done with 15 already...the hardest part is updating it) where patients, lay people, and other professionals in the same profession can visit and discuss things.

i can honestly see myself still posting on SDN once in a while

 

[braluk]

well idk if id use it as a chat forum per se in the future. Im referring to, especially when work gets hefty, using it as a means to get some opinions from others in the field, or maybe an an unofficial news source for medicine, be it some doctor who might have some insight into a new surgical device or otherwise. As for using it as a means to just joke around, who knows, I still might, I hope my sense of humor/social mastery and prowess wont be gone

 

[DebDynamite]

i can honestly see myself still posting on SDN once in a while

I may return to post here also. Simply because I am in the dregs of my med school experience and know it's going to get better. That way I can encourage others.

As for 30 years from now, I am going to own my own yoga studio, be standing on my head lots, and generally acting as boheme as ever. My parents have the upper-middle class thing going on, and (zzzzzzz....) it's kinda boring. Tennis is nice, nice cars are nice, but I'm spending my spending money on travel, vegetarian spa resorts, local charities (NOT my sister), and my own yoga studio.🙂