Hello! brainy nerds!!! I would want to share my thoughts in pursuing medicine profession.
We all know that all of us has own reasons why we wanted to be a doctor. Reasons that given us motivations in pursuing this noble career.
Here are my pros and cons in pursuing medicine:
Pros:
Service: for helping other people and directly making someone happy and comfortable.
Ever since when I'm in my undergrad which is in Nursing, I really loved helping other people making them comfortable and giving information in the best way I can do. But because being a nurse has limitations and doctors do all the direct management for their patients which is all I really wanted to do someday.
Knowledge: which means you gain more new information, research and learning new skills. Unending learning experience to help improve health of humanity.
Respect: We all know that when you heard or know a doctor they are on top of the social scale because we know that the work they contribute in the society is very important.
Flexibility: there are board range of opportunities. If you don't like to work in the hospital you can work as a researcher, educator and many more.
Security: gives you great opportunity to earn good living and consistent secure future career. Even if you are old, you can still find a job in other field of medicine and expand your knowledge.
Cons:
Financial: going to medical school is very expensive. You must have a good source of income or provider of your expenses when you want to pursue this kind of path. Not only the school tuition fee is expensive but added the books that cost thousands of money and if you are lived far away from your school you are required to live in a dorm.
In my case my father really supports my decision to be a doctor and promised to shoulder all my medical school expenses. But my mom somehow not into it because she said that their responsibility as a parent stops when the child already graduated from college and told me that I need to find a job and use my own money if I want to pursue medicine. Well we are not that rich but we are in the middle class kind of family in the society and I have still siblings who are studying in a prestigious school which is also expensive.
Workload: the work you do in your studies back in your undergrad is very different when you enter medicine. More unit of subjects, hours spend, duty rotations and many more so time manage is what you really need to balance your life as a medical student.
Stress: if you had hard time when you are in your undergrad the stress level are doubled when you entered medicine because of the subjects that you want to pass. You don't want to repeat a whole year when you failed one subject which means another expensive tuition fee. Many of your love ones, neighbors, and friends of your family all eyes are in you. You don't want to disappoint them and be as well do whatever it takes to survive in your medicine year.
Left out: the feeling of all your undergrad classmates and friends are in their peek of success, that some of them are settling down having a family , some are finishing their masteral degrees and here you are holding a very thick book, having second thoughts of the career you're in.
Just to sum up, no matter how difficult it may seem, I know that everything that I do is already decided. Decided because medicine for me is a vocation which is one doesn't choose medicine for it but one is called for it. Sacrifices are required, weighing priorities are at stake and I know at the end it will all be worth it as long as your whole heart is committed for it.
Always remember this verse.
I can do everything through him who gives me strength. Philippians
4:13
thank you for dropping by~
