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.

[sherri_chickie]

I think I am going to be ill... that is SO wrong! That step sister should be jailed for life!

[t-homo]

Sickening.

[Tsunami]

What are the fuzzy warm happy fields? I don't want to deal with babies and children.

I always thought I would want to get into oncology or palliative (and you know where that comes from) but am leaning more towards ER now. But then again like you told me before, that may change when I get through rotations.

I thought the psych ward may be fun until I found out that crazy patients may try to chase and beat me and I can't hit them back.

[tommymac]

Originally Posted by Tsunami

What are the fuzzy warm happy fields? I don't want to deal with babies and children.

I always thought I would want to get into oncology or palliative (and you know where that comes from) but am leaning more towards ER now. But then again like you told me before, that may change when I get through rotations.

I thought the psych ward may be fun until I found out that crazy patients may try to chase and beat me and I can't hit them back.

Well you can sort of hit back, you just gotta choose your spots

psych was realy boring to me but the EDP's that come in are quite entertaining. If yo uwork in fields like Dermatology, family practice or some of the smaller specialties like rheum or endocrine its not realy bad. its mostly clinic work or in an office setting.

[Dave]

Originally Posted by sherri_chickie

I think I am going to be ill... that is SO wrong! That step sister should be jailed for life!

or eaten. Provided she was cooked over 400 degrees to kill off all the diseases

[tommymac]

Originally Posted by Dave

or eaten. Provided she was cooked over 400 degrees to kill off all the diseases

autoclaved that will kill everything

[tommymac]

Originally Posted by sherri_chickie

I think I am going to be ill... that is SO wrong! That step sister should be jailed for life!

DA is looking to try her as an adult so at least she wont get just a few yrs in a juvenile facility.

I wonder if this was just ghetto trash that got out of control or a group of pedophiles. They had to know she was only 15 and they prolly knew she was bringing a 7yr old with her.

[pauldun170]

Originally Posted by Dave

or eaten. Provided she was cooked over 400 degrees to kill off all the diseases

You know, if you had a bad video card or laptop motherboard you can stick in the oven for about 10 minutes.
plenty o times it will fix it.
The little fissures in the soder that causes bvid cards and other computer bits to go get taken care of.
Works on x-boxes too.

(I didn't read the link. Don't have the stomach for that kind of thing anymore)

[Dave]

Originally Posted by pauldun170

You know, if you had a bad video card or laptop motherboard you can stick in the oven for about 10 minutes.
plenty o times it will fix it.
The little fissures in the soder that causes bvid cards and other computer bits to go get taken care of.
Works on x-boxes too.

(I didn't read the link. Don't have the stomach for that kind of thing anymore)

heh might have to try that sometime