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Does putting cabbage relieve swelling and stop breastfeeding? Decoding the big viral hack. When doctors talk, people usually listen. Even outside the work setting, doctors are regarded highly just think how your impression of someone changes when you find out he or she is a doctor. Physicians interact with different kinds of people with various ailments every day. The variety of experiences guarantees that every day will have some sort of excitement. Why did our writer Emily Singer apply to medical school?
Just because you are a doctor does not mean you have to see patients all day every day. Doctors who have the opportunity to see the same patients over and over again can build meaningful relationships with them.
Why did our writer Edward Chang apply to medical school? The medical field is not very influenced by the ups and downs of the economy. Doctors are always needed so you will not have to worry about a fluctuating job market as much as most other jobs. Doctors have to use their intelligence and technical skills to treat patients. You need to be really good at working with other people. Being a doctor is not a one-woman show.
You have to work as a team with other doctors, nurses, and support staff, particularly if you're working in a hospital. You can disagree with someone's treatment plan, and you can hate who they are as a person outside of work, but when you're at work, you need to be professional. Learning how to get along with different personalities is a huge, and challenging, part of residency.
You're going to learn just as much from your peers as you will senior physicians. No doctor is good at everything. Some doctors are really good at finding diagnoses for strange sets of symptoms but suck at bedside manner.
Other doctors are really personable with their patients but struggle with problem-solving. See which of your fellow doctors have the skills you lack, and pay attention. You'll pick up lots of things along the way from doctors who inspire you. Being a doctor is a ton of paperwork. So much paperwork. A lot of medicine is simply documentation: if you don't write down that something happened, it's like it never happened.
From giving someone a medication to completing a procedure, you have to honestly and objectively document every. That you did, both for the safety of the patient and for liability reasons. It's always going to be difficult when a patient dies. No matter how often it happens in your line of work, having a patient die will always be sad.
When the patient was really, really sick, it feels like any other person — you find comfort in the fact that they're in a better place for not suffering so much anymore. For patients with terminal cancer, their families have often accepted it toward the end, which makes it a little easier.
It's harder when it's a kid who died in a freak accident or something suddenly went very wrong; you feel like it's a huge loss of potential, someone who could have changed the world.
Doctors are rarely among those worried about staying relevant. Tulenko notes. Need further proof? Physicians may have to work nights, weekends, and holidays. If you need further proof, just take a look at a day in the life of an emergency physician. Tulenko says. She points to electronic medical records as being somewhat time consuming for physicians.
However, Dr.
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