Why Medicine - A new Discussion

**Thickshit** · 18-11-2007, 08:51 PM

I chose medicine because I thought it would be like ER....

It isn't.

**lalaloo** · 18-11-2007, 08:55 PM

Originally Posted by Thickshit

I chose medicine because I thought it would be like ER....

It isn't.

really?! Better reconsider!

On a more serious note the encouragement ppl get here and the ppl in similar positions is quite intoxicating - u really think 'actually I can do this' dunno if it's good or bad hehe

**Dr Noodle** · 18-11-2007, 09:27 PM

Originally Posted by Thickshit

I chose medicine because I thought it would be like ER....

It isn't.

I hope not. The situations that sometimes pop up on ER are effing nuts!

**Victoria09** · 18-11-2007, 11:55 PM

I'm not sure whether or not people do become attracted to medicine because of programmes like ER/Grey's/Casualty. I've heard it said that these programmes glamourise the profession, but I'm not sure that they do. Admittedly, all of the characters are ridiculously good-looking and everyone is always shagging, but other than that -they never have any free time or sleep, are often placed in serious personal danger, get extremely emotionally involved with cases, have drug and alcohol addictions, come into work when personally bereaved/terminally ill and get nothing but grief from patients and colleagues. Whether they're realistic or not is not the point- do they really inspire people to choose medicine as a career?

**Dr Noodle** · 19-11-2007, 05:40 AM

I know one girl who decided she wanted to do medicine purely because she got hooked onto Grays Anatomy. Or so she told me. She got in. But she's a caring person, I think she'll make a good doctor in that regard anyway. Personally those medical shows, though entertaining, are far too dramatic and I really hope it isn't like that in reality. Though I wouldn't object to sleeping with a steaming hottie in the on-call room. God I must come across as such a horny heffer on this forum

**Gizmo says -** · 19-11-2007, 12:43 PM

'orny....'effer?

**cyberjay** · 19-11-2007, 01:53 PM

Is no-one else motivated by a sense of obligation?

I don't want to sound pious - I'm quite capable of being a selfish arse - but what finally pushed me onto this insane roller-coaster was a sense that if you can, you should.

I'm healthy, stable - well it's relative isn't it! -, intelligent, hard working, compassionate... I mean I have other less attractive qualities, but I'm confident I'd make a good doctor - maybe a very good doctor. Philosophically, I'm an anarchist at heart; I really do believe Marx's communitarian maxim [I've long thought that this was derived from Proudhon like much else of Marx], 'from each according to their ability, to each according to their need'. From this perspective what I'm trying to do feels like the right thing to do - even if it is not necessarily a fully fledged duty.

CJ

**lalaloo** · 19-11-2007, 02:37 PM

CJ: Kinda I never looked at it like a sense of obligation however yeah I guess I kinda have thought to myself I can do it so maybe by not I am being selfish or maybe not realising my poential. I think as a career its kinda looked at if you didn't do it when you could - school then its off limits... That is slowly changing thankfully but I still feel less like I wanna share my renewed abition about persuing a career as a doctor than my associates in my evening class who say want to be barristers or clinical psychologists - equally demanding and long training periods but it's seems much more of an acceptable thing - just for me anyway

Maybe it's my issues but I feel rediculous at my age wanting this...

**Victoria09** · 19-11-2007, 03:12 PM

CJ- I totally get where you're coming from. There's an element of that in my reasoning as well.

And lalaloo, stop going on about your age! You're giving me a complex...

**Gizmo says -** · 19-11-2007, 03:19 PM

Originally Posted by cyberjay

Is no-one else motivated by a sense of obligation?

I don't want to sound pious - I'm quite capable of being a selfish arse - but what finally pushed me onto this insane roller-coaster was a sense that if you can, you should.

I'm healthy, stable - well it's relative isn't it! -, intelligent, hard working, compassionate... I mean I have other less attractive qualities, but I'm confident I'd make a good doctor - maybe a very good doctor. Philosophically, I'm an anarchist at heart; I really do believe Marx's communitarian maxim [I've long thought that this was derived from Proudhon like much else of Marx], 'from each according to their ability, to each according to their need'. From this perspective what I'm trying to do feels like the right thing to do - even if it is not necessarily a fully fledged duty.

CJ

so be a nuss then
plus Masters degree to satisfy the extra interests.