DD announced she wants to be a dr
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Anonymous
Ha, mine either! When I tell him he'll grow up and move away someday, he says he'll never ever leave us and he doesn't want to go to college if he has to leave. |
Anonymous
I am guessing you are a physician. I completely agree with your statement. |
Anonymous
| What's with all the "I hate being a doctor" talk lately? My cousin has been saying this as well. I'd ask her, but she's sort of annoying so I'd rather ask the forum. |
Anonymous
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I can only speak for myself, not physicians as a whole. I don't hate being a physician per se. There are just paths out there that, in my opinion, are better to take. It depends on your field of course, but often being a physician is high stress, high pressure and high liability. It also isn't fun to be on call every x number of days, working 30 hours in a row, on holidays and weekends and miss important family events. There is always a risk to yourself when doing procedures on people with serious communicable diseases. It is hard to bear witness to extreme pain, suffering, addiction, mental illness which resist treatment. In addition, being physician takes an extraordinary length of time. Becoming an attending physician can take anywhere from 3-7 years AFTER medical school, all the while your student loans are accumulating sizeable interest. And in this day in age, everyone thinks their understanding of pathophysiology of disease is better than yours because they are in a perihealthcare related field, their sister is a nurse, or they have googled their symptoms on WebMD. Deference and appreciation seems to be going by the wayside.
Anyway, if the OP's daughter was mine I would tell her to become a dentist. You can still make a difference in people's lives - helping someone smile confidently or relieving extreme pain is worthwhile. I don't know of many dentists working overnight, weekends, holidays or for unhealthy and ridiculously long/30 hour stretches. I'm not sure dentists even take call. Heck, I dont know dentists who work past 5. The chances of a dentists assets being wiped out by a lawsuit are pretty slim. All this while getting paid as much if not more than most physicians. And dentists can start practicing immediately after school without having to be an indentured servant/ residency. I'm sure the stress level is also substantially less, which to me is a the major selling point. Do your children a favor and pass on thiis information if they talk about becoming a physician!! Sorry for any typos- used an iPhone |
Anonymous
Ha. My dd is 5 and she is the opposite. She says she can't wait to move out so that she can have her own house and make her own rules. She says she wants to boss people around instead of doing the boring stuff she has to do at home (like making her bed and putting hee dishes in the sink.) Unfortunately she wants to be a doctor, a teacher, a nurse, a super hero AND an astronaut. So I guess I have to start feeding all of us ramen noodles from now on so we can afford all that. |
Anonymous
Love this. Some days I would like to hold the title of Princess Fairy (can I do that while still practicing law? Hmm). |