neurology & tea

— Sir William Osler

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I’m sure pathology gets a bit of a more ‘er… oh’ reaction than haem though, I can imagine. Hope it doesn’t bum you out too much. you’re going for what you want and that’s what matters!

we need all specialties anyway so??? i don’t understand why we always need people to justify their choices??? i could never do ophthalmology or derma or trauma surgery but i’m VERY GLAD there are people who WANT to do this. 

Where's the lie?

Being a doctor is like *work long hours until you forget what normal hours are like* *mess up your sleep cycle permanently* *become weirdly control freak about to-do lists* *gain trust issues because ‘trust no one’ is literally a doctor rule* *get screamed at by patients and relatives for the faults of the system* *almost cry and offer a nurse your firstborn when they make you a cup of tea on one pf your horrible shifts* *go so long without drinking that you don’t pee in a 13h shift* *resent your own life admin because your entire life is a jobs list* *cry in the treatment room* *prescribe stuff sometimes* *sort out that thing that was someone else’s responsibility because if it doesn’t happen, you’ll get blamed* *grow to love your colleagues fiercely* *feel a sense of dread whenever a nurse walks up to you and says ‘doctor, just to let you know…’* *feel happy that you made the correct diagnosis and made someone better* *get bullied by seniors* * burn out at some point or pick up a mental illness or two* *get sick from working too hard that you become run down* * make a patient feel better* *look at all the people leaving medicine and wonder whether you are doing the right thing* * ask for some tickets/feedback* *cry some more* *give someone medical advice*

do your job. support your team. don’t be an attention whore.

ok this did more for me than an entire year of pharmacology