Being a Medical Doctor

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Being a Medical Doctor

• All you need to know about being a doctor

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The Pros and Cons of Being a Doctor

• Pros
• Despite the lawsuits, the amount of students
  applying to med-school has been raising from 1980
  to today and into the future.
• One reason for this is medicine is one of the
  highest paying occupations in the world.
• Also nearly every day you will go home with a
  sense of
• achievement and an awesome feeling of contentment
  that you have saved a life.
• Doctors are not heartless their failures weigh
  heavily on them (quote).

• Cons
• The rate of lawsuits against doctors, hospitals,
  and medicine in general are rising. People are no
  longer blaming god or fate, theyre blaming the
  doctors.
• They say doctors bury their mistakes.
• Lots of good doctors leave the profession because
  of the lack of respect and ever growing burden of
  malpractice lawsuits. This mean the other doctors
  have to take up the slack that is left behind by
  the discouraged doctors. The consequences of this
  are longer hours and more patients.

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How to become a doctor.

• What it takes
• Love of helping people.
• The desire to learn.
• A curiosity about medicine and the human anatomy
  (body).
• You have to be very good at science and need to
  take these subjects
• Subjects
• Mathematics
• English
• Biology
• Physics
• Chemistry

Medicine is a unique field and it demands a
unique person. You also have to get into
med-school and actually pass. However if your
only interested in the job because of the money I
advise you look somewhere else.
The work of a doctor is mentally and physically
challenging you have to be prepared for long
hours and failure.
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The Difference Between Tv Doctors and Real
Doctors
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The questions
1.The defibulator. When saving somebodies life,
what does the defibulator do, start or stop the
heart? 2.Medical jargon. Does an ordinary
doctor really use the medical jargon to the
extent they use it in TV programmes? 3.Do real
doctors really look that good after a 10-15 hour
shift? e.g Patrick Demphsy. 4.Does blood really
splatter like they portray it on the TV?
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The answers
1.The defibulator stops the heart so the heart it
self can start up a steady rhythm again. When a
person flat lines the defibulator is not much
help. 2.Real life doctors do not use the jargon
to the extent to the TV doctors when talking to a
patient or the family of a patient they actually
try to put it in as simple terms as possible.
3.No, I dont even think they look that good
before a 10-15 hour shift they usually look
drained and tired. 4.Yes blood does splatter
like that sometimes it does depend on weather you
cut through an artery or a vain.
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The human anatomy
The body is a weird and wonderful creation. No
matter who or what you believe created it. You
have to admit who ever did made a pretty good job.
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The calling
Many people think of medicine as a "calling".
Being a doctor must be a passion. For this is
what will get you through those days where its
seems like its just not worth it. Like when you
try your hardest and give your all to save a
persons life but this time fate won in the never
ending battle between life and death. A doctor
was once quoted in saying that sometime it feels
like your arm wrestling with fate its self just
to give the life in front of you one more minute
on earth.
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Sources
http//www.greys-anatomy.com/pictures1.html the
Collins body atlas, published 1993, page 5 First
aid manual New Zealand, St john NZ , page 15 Tv
programme Greys Anatomy, showing at 9.30 pm to
10.30 pm Diane and Bill Hawkins (mum and dad)
http//www.human-anatomy.net/ http//www.mommd.c
om/beingadoctor.shtml http//www.cartoonstock.co
m/directory/m/medical_doctors.asp http//www.geoc
ities.com/erthewebsite/er_pictures.htm
www.google.co.nz