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#CareeerAdvice
#Medicine
Many parents want their kids to become doctors in India. Many kids also have similar dreams.
This thread can help you choose with better information about medicine and healthcare.
Read on...
#CareeerAdvice
#Medicine
Many parents want their kids to become doctors in India. Many kids also have similar dreams.
This thread can help you choose with better information about medicine and healthcare.
Read on...
Most children aspiring to be doctor talk medicine as -
Saving lives
Fighting disease
Giving access to healthcare to all people
Glamour
Finding pathbreaking ways of treatment
Money
Impressing friends and relatives
All honest answers. True.
Saving lives
Fighting disease
Giving access to healthcare to all people
Glamour
Finding pathbreaking ways of treatment
Money
Impressing friends and relatives
All honest answers. True.
Real life medicine is simple -
Working with ONE person at a time. A few or a lot everyday. Everyday of the year. All your working life.
It is intimate and emotional work irrespective of your clinical speciality.
Working with ONE person at a time. A few or a lot everyday. Everyday of the year. All your working life.
It is intimate and emotional work irrespective of your clinical speciality.
People in front of you are vulnerable - everyone understands this.
What most don't even imagine is - a doctor is equally vulnerable and bare in front of patients.
In spite of all professional training and experience, you are a bare human in front of people you help.
What most don't even imagine is - a doctor is equally vulnerable and bare in front of patients.
In spite of all professional training and experience, you are a bare human in front of people you help.
This level of intimacy, vulnerability, emotional bombardment for many hours a day. Everyday. For rest of your working life.
This is real medicine at ground level.
If this is your cup of tea (it is mine :)), then be a doctor.
If not, read on...
This is real medicine at ground level.
If this is your cup of tea (it is mine :)), then be a doctor.
If not, read on...
For all other aspirations related to healthcare, you don't need to be a doctor at all.
Yes. Read it again -
For all other aspirations related to healthcare, you don't need to be a doctor at all.
That is true.
Yes. Read it again -
For all other aspirations related to healthcare, you don't need to be a doctor at all.
That is true.
21st century healthcare is run by -
Technology
Automated decisions
Management systems
Politicians
Judges and lawyers
Scientists
Investors
Technology
Automated decisions
Management systems
Politicians
Judges and lawyers
Scientists
Investors
Each of these make more impact on healthcare at ground level than any single doctor ever can.
So your interest in better healthcare can be served by studying -
Law
Business Management
Money management
Public administration
Core science
Mathematics
Computer science
And Politics
So your interest in better healthcare can be served by studying -
Law
Business Management
Money management
Public administration
Core science
Mathematics
Computer science
And Politics
Choose wisely.
Ask yourself - 10-15 years from now, I will be a full time working component of this machine.
How do I want to spend my working day in healthcare?
And then choose how you want to proceed after 10th or 12th std.
In 21st century,
all parts are connected.
Ask yourself - 10-15 years from now, I will be a full time working component of this machine.
How do I want to spend my working day in healthcare?
And then choose how you want to proceed after 10th or 12th std.
In 21st century,
all parts are connected.
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