is it hard being a doctor?
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Many people think that becoming a doctor is difficult. Others have some sense that becoming a physician takes many years and is expensive. Most people realize that being a physician is difficult yet rewarding. All these people are correct. Becoming a physician is a long, arduous, expensive process that can only be accomplished with great dedication. \nBefore starting the process of becoming a physician (or any profession) you must do some honest soul searching. First of all you must be aware of the time commitment involved in becoming a physician. Medicine is a career that requires many years of preparation. Generally most people graduate college at age 22 and medical school at 26. Then after 3 years of internship and residency, many physicians begin their career at age 29. However, the training for some specialties can last until the physician's early to mid 30's. Obviously this can delay plans for marriage and starting a family. Some people begin their medical education after pursuing other careers, which can further delay the completion of their medical training. You must decide early on if you are willing to dedicate the time it takes to become a physician. As you can see, this is not a decision to be made lightly. \nMore importantly, you must decide if medicine is a field that is right for the kind of person you are. I believe that there are three cornerstones of a successful career in medicine: \n\nA love for learning in general \nA true intellectual curiosity about medicine in particular \nA strong desire to help others. \nBeing smart and doing well in the sciences are obviously important components of being a successful physician. However, do not fall into a medical career because you have done well in the sciences. Although this is a necessary requirement, you must also be able to relate well with people. \nAs a physician you have an opportunity to help others. Wanting to help others and enjoying helping others are necessary attributes of a good physician. This is something that cannot be taught. However, there are many other professions that can help others. Politicians, religious leaders and social workers all have the opportunity to help others, perhaps in larger numbers. \n\nMedicine is a career filled with choices. In what other career can you choose between delivering babies, taking care of children, handling emergencies, removing someone's cancer, or talking to someone who needs psychiatric help? Better yet, you can teach others any of these specialties, and while teaching have the opportunity to both practice your profession and teach it. Alternately, you can do research in whatever specialty you choose, with the potential to make a real breakthrough in preventing or treating illness. In addition medicine is a career that is honorable and is held in high esteem, allows you the ability to live just about anywhere, and provides job security (unfortunately, illness is something that will be around for the foreseeable future). \n\nHowever, all of this comes at a price. The many years of preparation, the discipline, the awesome responsibility, the worry about malpractice and the long hours can take their toll. Medicine is a unique field and it demands a unique person. \n\nOne word about money. Please don't let this be a driving factor in your decision, for the sake of your patients and yourself, because it will not sustain you. There are other careers in which you can make more money without the responsibility and the effort it takes to be a physician. \n\nIT IS VERY SATISFYING, make sure you have the grades and the personality to match it thought. GL
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yes\nbeing a doctor is not worth the trouble, time or money....dont bother....channelise ur energies elsewhere...anything else will do.\ncant u see why they are striking for so long in india, its not the reservation, its the frustration.\n\nim a doctor done MBBS and MD and im extremely dissapointed.
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You can be thirty and a doctor, or thirty and not a doctor.  If you're lucky, you will eventually be thirty anyway, and you might as well have achieved a dream like becoming the physician you want to be by that time.  And lots of physicians have children, so one doesn't rule out the possibility of the other.  Life will be stressful, but stress isn't always a bad thing.  In fact, the stress of achieving is often less than the stress of not being in control of your own life, so you can be stressed and happy too.  I'm assuming that you are still young, and if I were you, I would go for it.  You can always change your mind later on if you realize this is not really the life you wanted for yourself, but don't sell yourself short by giving up now.
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a doctor comes to mind.
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Not really, all types of M.D.s are in demand. \n\nSome M.D.s are motivated to become a specialist at the area of medicine they happen to be the most interested in and their practice consists of patients refered to them because of a specific ailment, but other M.D.s prefer to take up the challenge of general medicine where they must sort through complaints of all sorts and decide which they can treat and which need to be seen by specialists.\n\nIt is really a personal choice by the individual doctor, their interests, and the willingness to undergo additional training to be certified.
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Are you asking if its hard to become one or being one?? it depends on where you live as far as the education process and it depends on where you work at as far as how tough your job will be.
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Dear Friend,\n\nWhy do you want to become a doctor? \n\nIs it...\n\nyour strong desire to help people who are sick and hurting?\n\n\nhaving knowledge and skills that make you useful and productive anywhere in the world?\n\n\nthe respect and status associated with a career in healthcare?\n\n\nthe high annual income (between $150k– $500k)? \n\n\nensuring that no day is ever boring? \n\n\nthe fact that being a doctor ranks in the top three professions for job satisfaction?\n\n\nthe job security? \n\nImagine if you could take a very easy first step towards a fulfilling career as a doctor today, be 100% sure that a career in medicine is for you, and experience the thrill of performing medical task even before medical school. \n\nTo work as a family and general practitioner, you must:\n\n\ncomplete a bachelor's degree\ngraduate from medical school\ncomplete an internship\npass a state licensing exam\ncomplete a residency program in family and general medicine\npass additional exams to become board certified\nhave strong interpersonal skills; and\nbe self-motivated.\nFormal Education\nTo become a doctor, you must complete medical school. Medical schools grant a Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) degree. You spend the first two years of medical school in classrooms and labs. You study anatomy, biochemistry, and medicines. You also learn how to take a medical history, examine patients, and make a diagnosis. During the next two years, you work in hospitals and clinics under the supervision of physicians.\n\nYou need a bachelor's degree to get into medical school. While you do not need to be a pre-medicine or science major, these programs are good preparation. If you earn a liberal arts degree, be sure to take courses in physics, biology, and chemistry.\n\nOn-the-job Training\nWhile in medical school, you spend two years working as an intern in a hospital or clinic. As an intern, you rotate through internal medicine, family medicine, obstetrics, oncology, and other hospital departments.\n\nAfter medical school, you complete a residency program in family and general medicine. Residency lasts from three to five years. Residents usually work in hospitals. After your residency, you take additional exams to become board certified.\n\nMilitary Training\nThe military offers advanced courses and programs in medical specialties. Scholarships are also available for advanced medical training in return for military service.\n\nAreas of Study (What to study to prepare for this career)\nClick on any of the Area of Studies listed below to find out more about preparing for this career.\n\nAcupuncture\nAnatomy\nBioethics\nBiopsychology\nCancer and Oncology Biology\nDevelopmental Biology\nEmergency Medical Care\nEntrepreneurial and Small Business Operations\nEpidemiology\nGerontology\nHealth Services Administration\nHuman and Medical Genetics\nInternational Public Health\nMaternal and Child Public Health\nMedical Claims Examiner\nMedical Microbiology and Bacteriology\nMedicine\nMissions and Missionary Studies\nNaturopathic Medicine\nNeurobiology\nNeuroscience\nNurse Midwifery\nNurse Practitioner\nOptometry\nOsteopathic Medicine\nPathology and Experimental Pathology\nPodiatric Medicine\nPre-Medicine\nPublic Health Education\nPublic and Community Health\nRadiation Biology\nReproductive Biology\nVirology\nVision Science\n\nHope this helps!!!
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No career is hard if you like it and are good at it.  Plus compensation increases the more you love your job.
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You need to be a very caring person who can be compassionate and yet able to handle difficult situations without getting overly emotionally involved. Medicine involves life and death. You will have to deal with people of all ages at a time when they are scared and sick. Doctors almost have a calling. If you are unsure, go into medicine. By the way, there are lawyers with medical backgrounds. They deal with malpractice and other legal questions that pertain to medicine and drugs.
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It depends how good you're at foreign languages. Although, as for the average person--I'd say it's pretty hard.
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yes , it is very hard
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I believe it is a lot of loans and maybe some grants or scholarships depending on the person.  Paying these loans off though aren't the hardest thing, since doctors make some serious cash.
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My sister didn't graduate from high school, had three kids then became a doctor. It is hard but it is doable.
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anyone wanting to be a" doctor" in any field knows in advance there is only very hard work and little play in their future--until out of school and residency programs--there are people who "have the calling"--they make the best md's and nursies.  if you do not feel that this is your field calliung, then , find the area that is.
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I don't beleieve you'll find too many actual doctors on Yahoo Answers. They're very busy.\n\nMy sister went to medical school four years beyond college and worked as a medical resident for several years and eventually went into private practice. She does have to pay for malpractice insurance. She works very hard, and her mind boggles at the laziness of the non-doctors she works with. She really feels like she is carrying the rest of society. She thinks that society would basically collapse if it weren't for people who work as hard as she does.\n\nI went to graduate school for four years beyond college, then I taught full-time while earning my teacher certification at night. Teaching is very stressful. It is also one of those jobs where you have to "hold up the sky" for possibly the most ungrateful population on earth. Every year, I now make what my sister makes in a month.\n\nGood ultrasound technicians make about twice what I do, they can be qualified with as little as two years of college, and they don't have to pay malpractice insurance. There are a few other medical technician careers with similar education to salary ratios. If I wanted a medical career, I think I'd do one of those first to work in a hospital for a few years before deciding to go to medical school.
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If you are not ALLERGIC to studying biology(as I am to chemistry!)then I don't see any problem in your taking medicine as career.Once your studies in college begin then there will be no problem whatsoever.Its only a matter of initial hesitation and starting trouble.
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First of all my husband is a orthopedic surgeon and he is not over payed. My husband works sometimes 80 hours a week fixing peoples broken bones. My husband is at the emergency room constantly for car accidents,sports injuries,anything you can imagine. He if anything is underpaid. In between seeing patientsmy husband is in his office,or at home with myself and our 6 children. Being a doctor is not an easy job,it takes alot of up-keep with par-taking in seminars for new procedures and just alot of responsibilities and hard work. Sometimes i wish my husband worked at an office 9-5 job so he could spend time with the family. Yeah we own a beautiful home,drive luxury vehicles,our children attend private school, we have a live in nanny,but its hard work. I am a midwife so i am busy with my patients as well so you know being overpayed should be directed towards sports players not people who save other peoples lives and bring new life into this world.