Whats a typical day of a doctor like?

Question

any doctor. tell me what type and describe to me what the day is like and what you have to handle.

Answer 1

It's different for each of us.

My day consists of seeing patients pre-operatively, giving them otherwise deadly amounts of drugs, and keeping them alive while surgeons cut them up and sew them back together. Then I wake them up, get them to recovery, and start all over again.

I have to handle all sorts of things, and I never know what any day might bring. There are difficult airways (potentially deadly for the patient, if you can't breathe for him), massively obese people (multiple anesthetic issues there), people with poorly functioning hearts, lungs, and/or kidneys, screaming babies, fragile old people, drug abusers, ICU patients.... could be anything.

I also have to handle working with surgeons, but that's a different matter :)

Answer 2

Wow, that entirely depends on what type of doctor you are.
It varies a great deal. I was a specialist in internal medicine, hematology, and oncology. I had to see patients in my office and in the two hospitals where I admitted patients.
Then I often had to go to three more hospitals where I saw patients in consultation.
It was often a 16 hour day or more with every other night being "on call" for emergencies which got me up almost every night that I was on call.
I loved it, but I would not go there if I had it to do again.
It burned me out in less than 20 years.
It was impossible to have a life, but cancer specialists were fewer then than they are now.
I retired in my 40s and teach history now.
If you can, chose a field where you have more regular hours:
emergency medicine or hospitalist. Radiology is excellent for hours and pay. Surgery was never my field, but I know that it is usually not an easy life - again depending on what type of surgery you do.

Answer 3

umm; GHEttO:))