I always knew that I wanted to become a doctor when I was a little kid. I would play with the doctor’s kit (including stethoscope and scalpel) when I was a little girl and pretended that my Barbie doll was my patient. Little did I know that I’m now living my dream! 
Training to become a Consultant Surgeon is indeed very challenging, physically, mentally and emotionally. The long hours, the on call shifts, weekends and nights, clinics, monitoring your juniors, research and postgraduate exams and degrees, PhD.
The never ending work-based assessments, exams, and so forth. There is no end to gaining knowledge in medicine and surgery, every day is a new learning experience. It challenges your patience and virtue, your ability to work under pressure and stressful environment.
Sometimes, I do ask myself, why am I doing this job when I could be doing more glamorous job with better work-life balance and perhaps more money? If you choose to do medicine/surgery for either status or money,
I would highly recommend you to reconsider. It’s a long road and it’s a brutal truth. There were times when I cried for tiny little things that happened at work, for patients that I lost, for those sleepless nights studying for exams.
When you decide to become a doctor, it’s not just a job or a title, it’s a way of living. You’re dedicating your life to help those in need and most importantly it needs to come from your heart. #workhardplayharder #ilooklikeasurgeon #independentwomencan
P/s: Picture taken yesterday when we were about to start a trauma laparotomy.
