God, I loved medicine.
I remember reading all those stupidly big textbooks in med school to become a well rounded doc. I remember all those sleepless nights spent memorising bullshit that makes no logical sense, the oh so boring ward rounds that I had to attend to get a piece of paper signed off and all those BORING lectures which were designed just to piss me off.
But you know what, I MISS my medical text books. When I didn't have the pressure of an indoctrinating, conforming exams over my awesome head, I actually loved reading my books.
The world of medicine in my books is perfect. The way everything is presented is perfect. First comes the introduction, then epidemiology, then aetiology of diseases, then physiology and pathophysiology, then clinical signs and symptoms, then treatment and then finally prognosis. Aaaahhh perfection!! Devoting your life to learning about the human condition really is quite interesting.
Too bad being a doctor SUCKS!!! It's nothing like my books!! Where in my books does it say that I'd be spending most of my days ringing up different idiots to do stupid things??! Spending three hours on the phone to a hospital only fifty miles away to get a patient transferred is NOT medicine. Neither is ordering blood tests and writing blood test results down for several hours a day. I don't get to use any of that knowedge I've slowly accumulated!
It's really sad that I have to spend most of my days doing stupid secretarial jobs instead of actually treating patients and spending time with them. The most worrying thing is that I honestly think I'm in the minority who sees how ridiculous being a doctor is nowadays and that most people just accept the situation and don't want things to change or fight for things to get better. Sigh......I hope one day doctors can just do the doctoring.
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