Can you get any lower than this

[tommymac]

Originally Posted by Tsunami

Tommy, what made you decide to get into the medical field? Did you want to help people, or was it more an interest in medical stuff and the intellectual challenge?

I'm soul searching

I'm still pissed at the news I heard a couple of days ago from pug rescue here who threw a pug out of a moving car. Compounded with the stories I hear and the pictures I see- like the pug that was tied to the vets office after almost being beat to death (confirmed from the vet that it was a human doing the beating). People suck balls. I'm trying to keep perspective that you hear more bad than good about people and not to let the bad ones ruin it for everyone else and the medical field is something I always wanted to get into.

Maybe when I am making big bucks like you are, my motivation will change

I guess it was a little bit of both when I first started going this direction. i was always good at most of the sciences and it took a while to sortof find my way but here I am.

What you also need to realize is with what I am doing I am in the trenches seeing the worst/nastiest of the worst. There are many other fields in medicine that are a bit more warm and fuzzy (and us Er peeps make fun of all of them )

For my attitude and mindset Er is a natural fit, but going into PA school I wanted to either go into orthopedics (I am a washed up football player so its a natural progession) or cardiothoracic surgery (its the hot shot field and some of the PA's make serious coin and get to play with a lot of cool toys. ER was my last rotation in school and I had a whatever attitude going into it. A lot of my classmates complained about it (but they complained about everything anyway) but I took it where it was comming from and just went in like it was another rotation (and it wasnt pediatrics or obgyn ) and after about 2 weeks I saw the light.

Fast patient turnover, I didnt have to hear their lifes story, instant gratification in fixing whats in front of you, its a high pace job and you def need to be able to multitask, and its not the same shit every day.