Doctors, do you like your jobs?

Question

Also tell me how old you are and your specialty? Thanks a lot.

Answer 1

I started asking myself this question back in medical school. I was thinking to myself that I was actually paying the hospital to make my life miserable. But the thing was, in spite of all the difficulties that I went through, I never could get myself to quit. So i came to the conclusion that I MUST like what I'm doing if I can;t seem to stop doing it.

The real fun came in residency. There is nothing cooler than a very happy post-cataract surgery patient. There is no one more thankful than a EX-bilaterally blind indigent patient that can now see 20/20 on both eyes because of cataract surgery done well.

Ophthalmologists rarely save lives, but we do help patients with their QUALITY OF LIFE.

I'm glad I'm a doctor. And I love being a doctor... and I love being an ophthalmologist.

For the last question,,, I'm 33 years old.

Answer 2

I love my job. Where else can you wear pajamas all day and stick needles into people? :)

I am an anesthesiologist, and I have a blast (most of the time, except for vascular cases and eyes, because the surgeons are annoying and the cases are boring, in that order)

I get to use my brain on a regular basis, and I meet interesting people every day (and fill them full of drugs). I can be a comfort to people, and I try to be their advocate during difficult times (they can't speak for themselves while asleep).

Most of the folks I work with in the OR are great people, and we do good work. It's fulfilling.

I also have a practice that fits my lifestyle, although it wasn't always this way. You have to pay your dues.

It isn't polite to ask a lady her age, but I'll tell you anyway. I'm 43, but I look younger. It's probably the ponytail.

Answer 3

Yes.
37.
Liver Transplant Surgery.

Answer 4

I was a general practitioner, a brilliant diagnostician and very caring. There's one big reason I should not have gone into practice. I wanted my patients to be healthy and well and I could not get it through my head that this was, ultimately, not up to me. In the end, the patient is responsible for his own health; he has to comply with treatment and fix the things in his lifestyle that caused his problem. It wasn't in me to be tougher and sterner and care less. The second thing that convinced me to close my doors and do something else was that the government and the insurance companies dictate to the doctor what he can do for his patients.

It takes a certain type of person to be a doctor and it wasn't me. (To answer your other question, I'm 62.)

Answer 5

So far i'm not enjoying it. There are days when I think I should have gone into something else.