Those are the 3 “biggies” used to drive us into a career in Medicine.
Doctors make a lot of money. Doctors receive a lot of respect. Doctors make a huge impact on the world.
But under the microscope lenses of “personal experience” and “reality”, these 3 USPs aren’t as brilliant as they seem at first glance.
Doctors don’t get as much money as you think they do…when you divide what they earn by the crazy number of hours that they work.
Doctors are respected by some of the patients they treat. But they do not get respect from the Health care Factory that treats them as the dispensible, replaceable cogs that it trained them to be.
And whilst Doctors work really hard to make a difference in the lives of their patients, the impact their work has on the global canvas of health care is about zero percent.
That is, unless they develop an innovation like the Polio vaccine or a breakthrough in Human genomic that can scale independent of their continual efforts…something that most Doctors will neverdo because they aren’t given enough time, energy or encouragement to make meaningful breakthroughs in their fields of interest.
Also under the microscope, we see that the Money, Respect and Impact offered by a career in Medicine, come attached with a huge price tag:
Your personal happiness and well-being.
You have as much right to these as the patients you’re being trained to serve…don’t you think?
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