#medical professions

[throwawaytumble]

Kind of off topic, but why did you retire from pediatric oncology? Why did you take getting a therapist so seriously specifically because of the job? What is better about teaching art? I'm going to be a junior in high school and am considering going to medical school when I graduate.

Before I answer your question, I want to make it clear that I loved pediatric oncology and if I were to travel back in time and be given the option to go immediately into being an art professor or doing pediatric oncology first, I would do pediatric oncology first again. Changing your mind about what you want to do or what you enjoy later in life does not negate the importance and fulfillment of your at-the-time focus. This is why I am dismissive towards "but it's just a phase!" comments.

Anything in the medical field - any position at all - comes with a high amount of stress. Whether you are a custodian or a neurosurgeon, whether you do desk and paperwork or work nightshifts in the ER, when it comes to the health, lives, and livelihoods of others, it will take a toll. Janitors having to mop blood and feces daily, dietary having to be aware of how certain medications affect digestion and each individual patient's dietary necessities and restrictions and allergies, nurses having to take the brunt of the emotional turmoil of a patient in severe pain, and receptionists having to deal with people angry at having to be in a hospital in the first place will take its toll on anyone. If you work in a medical facility at all I would suggest having a strong emotional support system with your loved ones and it is absolutely necessary for you to have a healthy work/life balance as well as set up boundaries. Despite this, the system absolutely expects you to prioritize your career because "this is life and desth" and "if you don't work sixteen hour shifts, the patients will suffer." I have personally seen the Head of Maintenance tell his employee that taking a week off to deal with the death of a parent would be tantamount to patient abandonment. Society also deems you as heroes, and not workers, so you're expected to care less about your bills because "you're not in it for the money" and are expected to put up with insane levels of overworking and abuse from other workers and your patients and patients' families because they want you to be superhuman. This is why it is essential for you to set up and maintain boundaries and be aware of how close you are to burning out as well as have emotional support from someone in your life. The closer you are to dealing with patients, the more I would suggest you seek therapy.

As a pediatric oncologist, I dealt with children dying consistently. I dealt with grieving and scared family members. Radiation and chemotherapy is no walk on the park, so even those that survive have difficulties. You will have to go from holding the hand of someone as they die, or have a parent threaten to kill you because their child passed, and then two minutes later perform a puppet show for the balding child two doors down. For me, if a child was going to die, I got fulfillment in helping them live each day to its fullest, focusing on their quality of life, and making sure they experienced as much love as possible. For those who survived, I got fulfillment in helping them get better, as it were. Blood, gore, mucus, vomit, feces, urine, the smells of sickness and medications, etc didn't bother me. It did, however, get emotionally taxing to a degree, but I kept my work/life balance and boundaries in good shape.

That being said, it is still a lot to handle and take in while also having to deal with the entitlement hospitals have towards staff, workplace politics, and the absolute cut throat competition of other coworkers, the legal ramifications of filed grievances, complaints, and allegations, and the psychopaths that medical field attracts. If you are going to become a doctor, it was an absolute MUST that you get malpractice insurance. If you genuinely believe you'll never make a mistake, or if you shut down when you do make a mistake, it is not the profession for you. There will be a time that you see the symptoms, signs, and tests and have no idea why they are at those levels, or what could possibly be causing it. There will be a time you make an avoidable mistake, which i cannot emphasize enough. I've met many doctors who went into the profession accepting they'd make unavoidable one, but not avoidable ones. It is impossible not to. You will not see a symptom when you ought to have, or you will misdiagnose, or offer a medication that makes a symptom worse. There will be people who you can absolutely save but refuse to listen to you, those who have a 98% survival rate who pass away suddenly, those who are on death's door and have little to no chance of survival and end up surviving despite the odds, people who absolutely could have survived but stubbornly will not listen to you, etc. That, I could also handle.

But eventually, the sixteen hour (or more) days, guilt tripping from coworkers, management, patients, and patients' families when I took a two week vacation, working twenty-one days with no day off, the expectation that I be with everyone everywhere at all times outweighed the fulfillment I got from my patients, who I absolutely loved. And so I decided to pursue another career. And yes, when a doctor retires or quits, there are people who will call you selfish for giving up on saving lives.

I remember the moment I decided I was ready to move on from oncology. One day, a mother was angry with me because her child went into remission - which was fully expected - and she kept demanding to know what she was supposed to do now. Sometimes sickness can become patients' and families' identity, so this wasn't the first time, but earlier that week a former patient had seen me at the store and had been upset I hadn't integrated myself into their post-care lives. That was also common. When you see people at their most vulnerable and intense emotional moments, they will form attachments. As a professional boundary, I do not put myself into the personal lives of any of my patients (and now, my students.) While at work I will discuss their hopes, dreams, memories, but when I am not working, I think it's best to separate that from my home life. For me, I work best with my patients when I see them as patients, even though I am incredibly friendly and invested in them while with them. Sometimes they want to take the patient/doctor relationship and then it into something more familial, but I have no interest in that.

I had kept up with my art throughout the years, and eventually I realized I was treating it less like a hobby and getting more fulfillment from it than being a doctor. One day it sort of clicked that I wanted to teach art (not long after I realized I admitted I was no longer happy being a pediatric oncologist) as I was helping a preteen patient of mine shade shapes for homework.

Sorry for the lengthy reply as well as how long it took me to get around to answering!

#answered asks #Medical professions

[otaku553]

Assorted doodles of the Ebisu siblings

#kny oc #kimetsu no yaiba oc #demon slayer oc #Kaoru doesn’t look it but she’s the oldest by a pretty large margin #they each have their favorite thing to ‘disguise’ as on missions haha #for koharu it’s a traveling scholar from one of the fancy colleges in Tokyo #for kaoru it’s less of a disguise and more of a side profession: a traveling doctor/medic #and for shougen it’s probably toss up between traveling martial artist and just no disguise #shougen really brings a ‘fuck it we ball’ energy to the family

[nerdgirlnarrates]

Lame opinion I guess, but I lose a little respect for people who use chat GPT for assignments. I don’t get why people wanna avoid learning so badly.

#there is a particular type of med student who does nothing but complain about work and try to get out of it #I do not like this type of person #I don’t like people who take shortcuts at every opportunity #also why are you in medicine if you hate work so bad? #it is a famously work heavy profession #med school #medicine #med student #medical school #medblr #my content #my text posts

[crazycatsiren]

Late cancelation fees shouldn't be a thing because what's the justification?

I fucking hate greedy medical people.

#disability pride month #ableism #ableist bullshit #healthcare #medical profession issues #cripple punk #chronic illness warrior

[trisscar368]

Nurse: btw you should watch what you eat :) I want you to be ✨healthy ✨

Me, staring with the intense focus of a viper while unhinging my jaw: bitch you didn’t even ask what I eat

#fatphobia #i hate the medical profession some days #‘make better choices’ WRONG cannibalism be upon ye cause I’m going to eat your f’ing HEART roasted with the smoke of your medical license #cabbage muttering

[the-judicial-assistants-notebook]

Ryuunosuke having such strong negative feelings surrounding medicine and hospitals becomes doubly funny when you realise that all his closest associates are affiliated with the medical line.

#kazuma and susato were raised by a doctor. sherlock is raising a doctor. that guy he was accused of murdering was a doctor. #man cant get away from doctors. #i need to compile screenshots of him dissing the medical profession to those directly related to it. it's so funny #naruhodou ryuunosuke #guy of all time #dai gyakuten saiban #the great ace attorney

[naamahdarling]

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#just know that if you work in medicine you're probably hurting people and the best thing you can do is try not to do it deliberately #and believe people when they tell you that you've hurt them #or that others have #and kick your colleagues in the taint until they stop being assholes about medical trauma caused by their profession #front desk staff have more power than patients do and it scales up from there and don't you forget it #DAs never let medpros be sued in criminal court which means patients have to have money to hold them accountable in civil court #and that's making some of you mighty fucking cocky #also if you're fatphobic or transphobic or suspicious of people on scheduled meds you can suck bees out of my ass #rambling again

[irhabiya]

there's so much about the way the medical field operates that i hate, from medical school to actual medical practice. so much of it just encourages these passionless, soulless practitioners who never had their hearts set on helping people in the first place and that translates in their work and affects real human lives

#i was having a conversation with my brother (a dentist) about this earlier this year when i was still hesitant about my major #and he pointed something out that i kind of intuitively knew but didn't want to acknowledge #he said that most people who go into medicine or dentistry have no interest in helping people #they're mostly people who graduated with high averages and feel like it would be a waste to pursue something else #it's like they're high achievers clubs basically #or they're people who have a general interest in the field and specifically the sciences being taught but no passion for helping others #those usually end up in academics or research. the amount of people who go into medicine with a genuine interest in providing better care #is very very low #and like i can't speak for other medical schools #but our assessments for sure don't encourage taking this profession as anything more than academic #:/ #🩺

[shineelightss]

everyone quick look directly at the sun and wish onew happy birthday!!!!

#11/10 medical professions recommend #shinee #lee jinki #jinki #shinee Jinki #onew #shinee onew #t:ginger speaks

[girlblocker]

i hate womens health… how have none of you doctor freaks figured out what causes endometriosis by now

#it’s such a common condition #same w pcos #every male doctor should kill himself if he can’t find a cause of endo #I probably have it but they’ve never tested me #reading about endometriosis is like #ok so they don’t know what causes it #it can only really be diagnosed with surgery #the severity of the symptoms don’t correlate with the severity of the disease #and then the only treatments are fucking with your hormones #KILLJNG MYSELF IN FROMT OF TBE ENTIRE MEDICAL PROFESSION TO CHANGE THE TRAJECTORY IF THEIR LIVES FOREVER

[babblingeccentric]

Law x reader with sex pollen/fuck or die and he's soooooo embarrassed about it like he looks up your symptoms thinking "oh that sounds like sex pollen please do not be sex pollen please do not be sex pollen" and then it's sex pollen and he goes "eurrrrrrrgghhh" not because he thinks sex is gross or wouldn't fuck you if you asked him to but because he does not want to have to explain the diagnosis to you.

He just flips the diagnostic manual around so you can read it and he's pulling his hat down low to disguise that he's BRIGHT red and you read it and go "what?" because it's a fucking medical text it's all medical jargon and he just points to the "other names" section where it reads "also called fuck-or-die, sex pollen, etc etc etc" and now you're both embarrassed except now you're also actually scared because is it really fuck-or-DIE???

#law is a little worried about coming off as a creep when making advances #which is why most of his flirting strategy is sitting around looking hot and mysterious #and letting someone else make the first move #but this diagnosis is something he's especially afraid of giving #because he doesnt like mixing his medical profession with his personal life #and this feels coercive and like something that is so easy to take advatage of #and he doesnt want to do that to you #i also think growing up with doflamingo very aware of how people can be coerced and manipulated #and that he really doesnt want any of his intimate relationships to be like that #mine #trafalgar law #reader insert #x reader

[poore-choice-of-words]

I think in-universe, Xenologists get a lot of calls from medical professionals dealing with superhumans for the first time, or the hundredth time.

"A sensitive will fall under anesthesia fast, but their immune system will flush it out faster."

"Without the history of this particular person with superhuman strength, I cannot say if you need a stronger scalpel, whatever that means."

"Their body turned to metal when it touched the scalpel? How fast? Did you try to cut through it? How did it go?"

They save a lot of lives by being nerds.

#the heroes' guild #my writing #my worldbuilding #there's other professions that call them #of course #and having any amount of knowledge on superhumans #makes you a vital resource in your field often #but medical professionals are most frequent #trying to talk about writing on here more #I'm in a period of activity

[hmslusitania]

Oh my god I hate doctors I hate today can it be the three day weekend yet so I can do something besides high key want to disappear into a forest never to be heard from again

#the ghost ship babbles to herself in the night #I have nothing against doctors as individual people just the profession #not in an anti science way in a medical neglect combined with lifetime chronic illness way #and work sucks #so so much #I just want this year to be over #I’m so tired

[zyrafowe-sny]

I really want Ambrosius to quit being a knight. That career path must have been pushed on him. Let him try out a million other possibilities.

#he could run a pizza place with Nimona and argue over olives and pineapple before just banning both #medic/doctor/therapist - heal instead of hurt #be a shapeshifter and feel itchy sticking to one profession for very long #ambrosius goldenloin #nimona

[bibliophilecats]

After my GP previously provided me with this gem

"Well, you don't look sick."

today he added to my collection

"I am not here to coddle my patients."

Bedside manners: 0

And he really asks my why I do not come in for check-ups but only when I am sick and need a doctor's note.

(As a side note, he told me to get in shape. When I pointed out that I was not able to keep any food or drink for the last 36 hours and barely managed to get to the doctor's office, he recounted the time he had a stomach flu and started jogging the moment he was feeling mildly better and lost 2 kg this way 🙄)

#personal #fun with the medical profession #bedside manners #how not to

[daggersandarrows]

just remembered about the "friend" who called me an idiot and stopped talking to me because i refused to include nurses in acab.

like...yeah these two groups have power over the vulnerable that they will abuse. yes nurses can and will harm people. tell me. which one of these groups has state sponsored guns, riot gear, and legal invulnerability against being brought to justice??? which one of these professions was invented to recapture escaped slaves????

#also i simply don't believe that you can paint all nurses with a broad brush #like i have met plenty of nurses (and i say this as someone with mega medical trauma) #who were genuinely good people who did enormous amounts of good #who did their jobs as they were intended to be done #who TOOK CARE OF PEOPLE #is it a profession people are likely to abuse? sure absolutely #are there massive institutional problems in place with the usamerican healthcare system? also yes #and i do want to say i think the abuses that nurses go through are horrible #but it is totally possible to just. be a good nurse #i don't think it's EASY but. #like #literally it's 100% possible #thane.txt