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| I saw a tweet today about how residents at a major hospital are demanding hazard pay for their work. Especially during these terrible times of the pandemic. I can understand how caring for dying COVID patients can take a toll on their psyches and their physical health. Medicine is no longer the 'coveted' career that I remember in my college years. Even then there was that acceptance that once admitted, a life long career doing more than 100 percent of one's work was demanded of one in medical school and thereafter. There was the internship that was de rigeur after medical school, where a student would fight off lethargy, sleepiness, to tend to patients, memorize tomes of medical books, to be able to diagnose a patient's illness without any mistake. Then comes the time they have to do residency (if they chose to specialise) and this would be done by a lottery. If you happen to win a position somewhere that you put in as a lottery place, you would consider yourself lucky but if not, you'd have to go to any place that needed medical doctors, somewhere out in the West or North where there were few civilized places and one had to be alone without much support unless one were already married. Once a residency is finished then one would either join a clinic or a hospital or work on their own in their own clinic. Then the spectre of malpractice comes into play and it is a requirement to get malpractice insurance. That alone together with the student loans, all the financial burden of starting a practice, hiring help, and being anyone in medicine would be back breaking. No wonder some doctors offer services like abortion on demand, and other unsavory but legal practices to make a living as a doctor. I wouldn't myself have done something like offer that sort of service but I did not get 'lucky' getting into medical school in the first place. So I think that medicine as a career is a thankless job. yes, you'd probably be secure in the sense that you'd be having a living but , the life sacrifices are too great these days. There are many who have an MD who've decided to leave their profession due to this alone. Some of them have sacrificed their lives, their wives have left or they've been ensnared by ambitious women (who see them as a way to get money and jewelry and cars), or they've had no real relationships with their children for they are at the hospital for long hours. It's not a good career, in my opinion. It's probably enough to have a small practice and be a humble GP, but those are few these days and many of these new doctors coming out of the training are subspecializing hoping that they'll get patients suffering from some esoteric disease who may never materialise. Just a few thoughts. M. |
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