tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760353953251845523.post8418342559229311422..comments2024-02-10T02:14:39.898-05:00Comments on Buckeye Surgeon: Just a job?Jeffrey Parks MD FACShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15650563299849196122noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760353953251845523.post-64196292196831809612014-02-15T13:23:33.262-05:002014-02-15T13:23:33.262-05:00Spoken like a true surgeon. It's no surprise t...Spoken like a true surgeon. It's no surprise that you happen to be a glutton for punishment and a martyr. It's any wonder most MS-3s hate surgeons.A person who defines himself by his job has a psychopathology going on and it isn't healthy.<br /><br />Your type of attitude is the exact reason why third party payers, hospitals, and the govt. think it's perfectly acceptable to decrease or deny reimbursement bc doctors are willing to be martyrs for "the good of patients" at the expense of everything else. Top students, get top grades, and get top specialties. Corporatism infiltrating medicine is what is destroying it, not high achieving students who aren't stupid enough to fall for the chorus refrain.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760353953251845523.post-37430382054659191252008-05-06T17:10:00.000-04:002008-05-06T17:10:00.000-04:00As a pre-med who has agonized over the decision to...As a pre-med who has agonized over the decision to attend med school, I happen to agree with your post 100%. In fact, although I feel I was born to practice medicine (surgery in particular), I feel I have spent most of my adult (read:post 18) life running from it, because of te lifestyle, the time commitments, and the divorce rate among physicians, UNTIL I realized that it was a part of me I couldn't deny. It is who I am. Sure, I could be a successful realtor, or mortgage broker, or even a nurse (which incidentally I considered for a long while), but the practice of medicine is inside of me, and is as much a part of me as any other tangible part. I knew it the first time I observed a surgery, I tried to ignore it until it became so impossible that I sat my husband down, and told him that if he loves me, he has to love all of me.<BR/><BR/>I certainly hope that when I take my own son to the pediatrician, that he has that same love, that same dedication, and that same level of intimacy with his profession, so that he's focused on my child's rising temperature instead of on the fact that he's missing the game on TV that night.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760353953251845523.post-73951948683346444552007-07-20T15:21:00.000-04:002007-07-20T15:21:00.000-04:00Many guys I trained with are in academic surgery, ...Many guys I trained with are in academic surgery, and for a few years now they've been decrying the change in the commitment they see. On the one hand, I look back and wish I'd been at least a little less insane in my prioritizing of work over everything else. On the other hand, I'd rather have me operate on me than some young guys I know. My hope -- our hope -- is that there will always be some who see it as a calling no matter what. There will, I think. But probably not enough of them.Sid Schwabhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14182853083503404098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2760353953251845523.post-26477226201079545672007-07-19T08:16:00.000-04:002007-07-19T08:16:00.000-04:00spoken like a true surgeon. i agree.yet i don't th...spoken like a true surgeon. i agree.<BR/><BR/>yet i don't think one can view our job as just a job. it simply is not. to get there takes too much and somehow changes you. sounds very melodramatic, but unfortunately it simply is true. if i had an office job i think i would also view it as just a job though.<BR/><BR/>when i see the super achiever school students of today applying to medicine, just because their marks are good, i sometimes shudder. some of them should become cutthroat lawyers and mass murderers and the like. yet they go into medicine because of school marks? doesn't make sense.Bongihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12918640034313468627noreply@blogger.com