Consider This Before Joining a Medical School

In every society, doctors are highly respected. Children dream of that profession because doctors are somewhat like heroes. They appear when pain is unbearable to relieve it for you. They save your life when you’re about to die. They also appear intelligent because how could someone be a doctor if they weren’t smart? The society treats doctors as if they know everything. Politics? Sports? History? Literature? He’s a doctor, he must know all about these!

Of course doctors don’t know everything. Not everyone is interested in history or literature. Nobody knows everything. Doctors are humans just like you and me. If they do something wrong, they’ll be punished just like everybody else! What I want you to know, my friend, is that every profession is important. Whatever your dream is, it is important and it is worth running after it.

Having a dream is nice, but shouldn’t you consider the consequences as well? I’m not telling you to stop dreaming of being a doctor, not at all. I’m just trying to show you all of the sides you should know about. Because behind that flourish road, there are a lot of sacrifices.

What is a successful good doctor to you? Is it someone well-known with a lot of patients in his clinic? Well, to me the definition differs a little bit. A good doctor is someone who gives the right diagnosis, asks for all of the required information before giving you medications and someone who wouldn’t mind if you called after midnight because you’re in pain. A good doctor, to me, is someone who would do whatever he could to relieve your pain.

If you’re okay with waking up after midnight to give consultation, you’re on the right track! Your goal is to really help people and save their lives. I hope you stay like this because we need more people like you. I think a doctor who only cares about saving people’s lives will do his best to excel in his studies. It’s hard, but as long as you do know what your goal is, only look forward. It’s okay to take a breath from time to time, but make sure to never look down.

One of the downsides of being a doctor, in my opinion, is that you might not find time to form a family. If you succeed in forming a family, will you succeed in bringing your children up? I think it’s hard to separate work from personal life. You have patients waiting for you, but also kids who you should spend time with. I salute whoever is a good doctor and a good parent at the same time!

Honestly, most doctors are turning into traders these days. Some only think about money, so make sure to remind yourself over and over again of your main goal. You entered this school to save people’s lives and to relieve their pain. Not to become rich and famous. I also hope you know that a doctor’s mistake equals a life. Study hard and know what’s new in the medical world to avoid such mistakes. I wish you the best of luck, I really do.

One of the underrated medical fields is nursery. We have to understand that a nurse’s job isn’t less important than a doctor’s job. The surgeon finishes the operation and goes home to sleep, but a nurse will stay up with you to give you the painkillers you need or help you change your clothes or go to the bathroom. These things aren’t easy for patients after operation. And just like bad doctors, we have bad nurses, so make sure to become a good one. Make sure to make the patient as comfortable as possible because that’s all that matters.

Each field is important. Don’t let social standards convince you with the opposite. Find your passion and run after it. Even if everyone is against you, don’t listen to them and keep walking. If you couldn’t join a medical school, you can still help other people in a lot of forms, so don’t let that bring you down. Soon enough, you’ll realize the reason why God chose that field for you. Until then, “Dream, hope, forward, forward”.