I'm alienated and miserable as a doctor. Please no replies on how great I have it...I don't!
I'm around death and disease all of the time. And the patients who aren't dying nevertheless have endless complaints, and you have to do every test under the sun to make sure it's not serious.
Nobody is happy, despite everything I do. Everybody is fat, old, poor and depressed, and they all want to feel young and rich and beautiful. As if I can deliver that.
The healthcare system is breaking down, with increasing costs, and less and less income for everybody involved. Doctors treat each other like crap, and are superficially nice to patients, but in reality just do whatever it takes to get patients out of the clinic/hospital/ER wherever. Everybody else who works in healthcare...nurses, pharmacists, technicians, clerks, etc.? Miserable and underpaid. And boy, do they enjoy sticking it to us doctors!
Now, it's true I don't have to do manual labor, and I'm middle class comfortable. But my life is one hopeless day after another, with nothing to look forward to but the weekends and the paycheck.
Should I quit medicine or continue? What difference will it make, I'm scarred, a walking shell of a human being.
I'm around death and disease all of the time. And the patients who aren't dying nevertheless have endless complaints, and you have to do every test under the sun to make sure it's not serious.
Nobody is happy, despite everything I do. Everybody is fat, old, poor and depressed, and they all want to feel young and rich and beautiful. As if I can deliver that.
The healthcare system is breaking down, with increasing costs, and less and less income for everybody involved. Doctors treat each other like crap, and are superficially nice to patients, but in reality just do whatever it takes to get patients out of the clinic/hospital/ER wherever. Everybody else who works in healthcare...nurses, pharmacists, technicians, clerks, etc.? Miserable and underpaid. And boy, do they enjoy sticking it to us doctors!
Now, it's true I don't have to do manual labor, and I'm middle class comfortable. But my life is one hopeless day after another, with nothing to look forward to but the weekends and the paycheck.
Should I quit medicine or continue? What difference will it make, I'm scarred, a walking shell of a human being.