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What do you think of Doctors?
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silverROSES said on November 20, 2005 08:07:
Hey guys! I need your comments regarding this Crazy Dream of mine. i’ve known a doctor who seemed to be perfect to me! I do admire her in almost everything. Like what I said she’s perfect to me! I know her for almost 3 years now. And since that day i saw her, I already have this crazy dream of becoming a doctor. I don’t know somehow I wanted to be just like her, in everything she does.I do Admire the doctors for the kind of intellect that they have but not all of them seems to have the right attitude specially when they are already been tired and they loose their patience of course they are only humans.
But here are some of the concerns that do bothers me! But I don’t think i’m capable of doing so! I’m exactly the opposite of this person.
1. Is my dream/or idea of becoming a doctor is just because of the great admiration craved in my head/ and nt acyually what is meant for me.
2. Im 21 is it late already for me to nurture that kind of dream?
3. Does doctor in your area also received great respect just like anywere else.
4. And lastly I don’t want to study anymore! I’m tired already! Even if I wanted I want it tomorrow! he!he!
To Dr. Joephelia Luces don’t ever change!
The Bears loves you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
kachina008 said on November 20, 2005 11:12:
yeah but it’s still really hard. I mean there are two extremes. you can be totally involved, like spook’s friend, or totally detached, neither of which are really good. being a doctor is a really hard and competitive business, and many doctors get lost in the competition from te original “making people feel better” goal. It’s definitely a respectable job!
ally77 said on November 20, 2005 18:08:
Well I say follow your dream! I have a friend who is my age, she works in Science now, finding cures for Cancer, she studied really hard for this. but now at 28 she wants to change her career and re-train to be a Doctor. Oh she has the brains for it and I know she will succeed and I think it’s great..
I say go for it! :)
Debora said on November 20, 2005 20:00:
I studied Medicine for 2 years but i gave up. I really admire people who do that kind of work, but it wasn’t for me.
Can I give you an advice? Think very well before starting a career like Medicine, is really long and difficult, but, if you finish it, the reward will be wonderful. I think helping people is one of the best thing people can do.
Doctor receive great respect everywhere, but you don’t have to become a doctor just to be respected, there are much than respect about being a doctor.
And no, you’re only 21, it’s not late, never is too late for studying.
Good Luck!!!
Santi said on November 20, 2005 21:42:
Well, then there is of course the issue of the availability, which as far as I know is nearly continuous. You should mind that is not just a simple profession that when you are off at home everything is done.
You may have very inconvenient working hours and have to constantly update because pharmaceutical and biological discoveries are especially fast.
For the “what I think of doctors” stuff, I think they’re ok, but they rely way too much on chemical treatments. It is even weird for me to hear me say this (in high school I wanted to study Pharmacy!!), but maybe the use that Spanish society makes of medicines and how Spanish doctors prescribe them is what has made me change my mind.
I mean, as I read somewhere, doctors here are:
“People who cure illnesses of what they know little, with chemicals of which they know less on people of which they know nothing at all”.
That’s very much true around here...
silverROSES said on November 21, 2005 01:02:
Thanks for your comments and advice! I do really find it hard to decide coz I love the way people look up to them it’s just wonderful. When people think of you as some kind of a hero, got the brain and even if your not beautiful the people will look at you with great admiration.Coz your brain has all.And the kind of attitude that you develop as u reach that status.The patience and deligence.It really pays.
Am I just becoming blind. Coz this Docror that I met she loks so young at the age of 31, Then she became our professor and then a friend to us. I’m really inspired with evreything that she has achieve at a young age. It’s as if she was born with luck./ Only one thing is missing she’s still single!
chippy205 said on November 21, 2005 03:01:
yea i respect doctors.. they able to save lives:)
my dream is to become a Mathematics teacher..
i love to study those theories involving M.
thats all i can say...
maiden said on November 26, 2005 12:06:
Being a doctor brings honor to your family and to some it’s a status symbol. As I see it you had this dream of becoming one because of your admiration to this particular person. It’s not easy to become a doctor,it’ very hard. So to become one you need to have this deep interest in the field of medicine. You already said that you’re tired of studying so what’s the point of pursuing a medical degree. My advice to you, concentrate on your studies right now because I assure you, you can be like her too not the way she is right now but the success she is having.
silverROSES said on November 29, 2005 08:45:
hey! Great maiden!
Nice to see your name here!
I guess your new here!
Are you an old maid? joke!! wer u from
Welcome!!!!!!!!!!!!!! To the big rox world!
Anyway just like what I’ve said that was just a crazy dream of mine!
They are were they are right now because they really work hard for it!! I don’t know why I have those kind of thinking on my mind!
See! that person really has big influence on me! Don’t know why?
She seemed to be well raised!
Thank you! for visiting!
Nice to have your comment here!
Very well defined enough to make up my mind!
Queen_Marie said on November 30, 2005 07:39:
I agree with Santi. It certainly would be hard keeping up with all the latest developments. I also agree with the point about overprescription of drugs. Thankfully these days, the stigma related with alternative therapies and natural remedies is lifting. Maybe you could try doing something like that.
As for my opinion of doctors, most of them are great. The thing I hate is with elderly patients, they don’t seem to try as hard for them just because they don’t have as long left to live. My own Grandmother for instance, would probably still be alive today if her stupid doctor had worked harder to get to the bottom of why she had nose bleeds for a whole year. By the time he sent her for the appropriate scans, which found cancer in her sinus cavity, it was far too late.
maiden said on November 30, 2005 09:10:
@ silverRoses :
Do you know why she has a great influence on you? maybe because she looks like somebody you idolized for so long. The right term i guess is transference, remember your subject in psyche?
silverROSES said on November 30, 2005 11:35:
whats that! Maybe I have to scan my psyche book!
going back to the time when our prof used to teach psyche my mind is always flying!
But I’ll try to scan my psyche book again!
But tranference! is that a disorder!
BUt yeah!!!!!! I think your right! now I realized that even long before I met her, her personlaity and everything that she is already exist on my mind.
That when I saw her that was the time the dream become real!!
ally77 said on December 1, 2005 04:31:
Thumbs up! again, for the second time this month I’ve been treated great at the hospital! I will never judge the NHS again!
Majdy said on December 1, 2005 14:49:
I will be back at the dentist this Friday :P
the dentist are nice, but i just don’t like to go there :P
maiden said on December 2, 2005 12:42:
That’s great silverRoses, at least there is something solid to hold on to now.
I thought for a second you’ve forgotten what transference is, coz if not i would wonder why your psyche prof passed you in her class in the first place.
Oldag75 said on December 2, 2005 23:50:
Physicians perform a service. They go to school for many years, and work extremely hard, to learn the most current information about how the human body functions, and to learn the extremely complex skills for treating its maladies.
To suggest that everyone is entitled to receive for free the services doctors perform is immoral. That is the same as saying that you should perform for FREE the work YOU do, because others benefit from it.
I really don’t think I would want to get onto an operating table for brain surgery, knowing that the neurosurgeon will be performing that surgery because the government has compelled him to do so, free of monetary charge to me. That’s probably not the best circumstance under which you can have some dude taking a knife to your frontal lobe.
I once dated the daughter of a successful local doctor. Everybody in her family was constantly using some sort of drug... for fatigue, for red eyes, for headaches, you name it. Every problem in their life seemed to have some medical solution. They were like all of the politicians who always think some government program invariably is the solution to everyone’s problems.
silverROSES said on December 3, 2005 05:59:
Yeah! your right maiden!
BUt I just forgot what tranference is but now I have a clear understanding. Burt it says there that was about on past experiences. But you were never in my past experiences.
Dreams yeah! always!
Well she pass me because I don’t know? got no idea maybe you know!
maiden said on December 3, 2005 07:35:
Doctors do some services for free for humanitarian reasons like doing an operation for free to those people who cannot afford to have one. In our country we have what you call medical missions wherein we give free medical services and give free medicines to the poor. Doctors here in our country are not compelled to do this but on the contrary they even voluntered to join these missions.
Satisfaction in one’s job is not only attained by monetary means but by knowing that somehow you helped those who really needs your expertise.
SilverRoses, maybe you’re just lucky she passed you or maybe because you really studied well. You really have forgotten what transference is, it’s transfering your feelings from one person to another person who somehow had the same characteristics.
silverROSES said on December 3, 2005 10:06:
Ahhhhhhh? Is that it?
I don’t get it? Transferring feeling?
Santi said on December 5, 2005 16:38:
Well, apart from what I think of doctors, you sound like you’re in love with that girl. Is that so?
PS. What do you both mean by “psyche”? Apart from “soul” in Greek, what is that?
maiden said on December 6, 2005 10:59:
’Psyche’ means mind, we just shorten psychiatry.
Santi to whom do you ask that question?
silverROSES said on December 7, 2005 05:43:
Yeah!! and Santi! were did you get that meaning of psyche is soul!
silverROSES said on December 7, 2005 06:04:
and santi: what makes you think that? Am I rationalzing too much!!!!!!
haven’t you read the other article I wrote along with this...
Santi said on December 7, 2005 09:57:
Psyche is “soul” in Greek, just look up a dictionary or an etymology dictionary. “Mind” is in Greek “nous” or “gnomi” (Yes, gnomes come from that). It has never meant “mind” but in bad translations. It means also “spirit”.
As you may know many words in science come from Greek, well that’s Psyche’s origin. If Psychology was the “science of the mind” it would probably be called Gnomepisteme or Gnomology. The literal translation is the “Speech on the Soul”.
Psyche is even the Greek goddess of the soul (the one that married Eros, the god of love son of Aphrodite).
From there come all the words like psychology, psychopat or psychiatry.
http://www.kypros.org/cgi-bin/lexicon
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?l=p&p=35
Santi said on December 7, 2005 10:02:
Well, there’s a kind of ver ysubjective worshipping in your way of talking that in Western cultures can be understood as love for that other person.
And you repeat it too much, just like people in love who bore all their friends talking about how wonderful his/her one is.
And I don’t know to which other writing of yours you are refering to. Is it something homophobic or so?
maiden said on December 7, 2005 10:16:
Santi, we don’t question your knowledge on greek words coz compared to you both silverRoses and I don’t know that much..that is just the meaning of psyche in Merriam Webster’s medical dictionary.
In my understanding love for a person borders on different things, love for a friend, love for parents,an intimate kind of love, etc...which one are we talking about here?
silverROSES said on December 7, 2005 10:27:
santi!!!! bravo!!!!!!!!psyche, soul? sorry we don’t speak greek..
silverROSES said on December 7, 2005 10:51:
no! it’s not about homophopic . It’s simple people you admire!!!
I guess the topic is shifting now!
well I guess love has a more broader meaning...
friendlystar_03 said on December 8, 2005 08:57:
hey there! can i join?
back to the original topic...what i think of doctors?
for me, they are great! they are already a living hero! why? coz saving lives is not an easy task and dealing with life and death really matters to them..
who agree with me?.........
no one?..of course not! i know almost all of you agree with me!!!;-)
BUT...................
i think doctors are loners..haha!lolz!
if they are still single in middle stage of adulthood, they are so unpleased with the things in the sorroundings!! they sometimes become so rude with their clients... they are very demanding sometimes! i dont know why...maybe they just feel they are being neglected in their own time..isnt?
ops! im not referring to all doctors..but i guess this is true to some.. they may not admit it but unaware of doing it...
there are still doctors who really shows concern to their client.. there are doctors who can be your friend.. whom you can talk to in the middle of the night without hesitant... there are doctors who can join you in food trippings, swimming, laughing, party and even share some non sense topic...watching movies is also possible for them..for short.. they are just human like us who want to love and beloved...who wants to enjoi life and have fun!
am i right????!!!!!
silverROSES said on December 8, 2005 09:01:
yeah! I agree!! those are really close to some specially to the one I know!
friendlystar_03 said on December 8, 2005 09:21:
ha.ha!lolz!
sounds great!!!!
thanks for agreeing with me sR!!cooL!!!!
its really true!!!
maiden said on December 8, 2005 11:30:
I also agree with you friendlystar..you’re right into that aspect of doctors being human.
They have to enjoy life also, they need to unburden their stress into other forms of recreation coz if not they would unleash their negative thoughts unto their patients. That’s the time I guess that they sometimes act unkindly and unfairly.
Maybe that doctor you know knows how to handle his/her stress well.
friendlystar_03 said on December 9, 2005 05:23:
@maiden, ur right! the doctor that i know is able to manage herself despite of rigid and serious work..
This doctor is great coz she has time for her friends! esp the new one...
Though she looked exhausted from work,yet she is still able to smile.:-)
i wonder where her strengh rooted..
hope she can gve advices to me coz im too pressured right now @ school works....
I think Atlas is with me now...I’m shouldering the weight of it... But i dont forget to add color to my face coz if not, all my problems will reflect on it..lolz!
LittleSpooky said on November 20, 2005 08:25:
This is something that I want you to think about and see how you feel.
Are you the type of person who would possibly become emotionally attached to your patients? If so, how would you feel if one of them died, despite the fact that you did all you physically could to save them?
YES, there is some involvement there. I’m not suggesting that you be cold, cruel, and callous. I just want you to be able to have SOME clinical detachment in the job. I know a guy who’s a doctor up at Primary Children’s Medical Centre. When I was driving bus, I’ve picked him up and taken him into town after he’s lost a patient and I’ve seen what it does to him. I’ve spent numerous hours talking with him after the fact, and I have to say that I admire him, and I think his wife is absolutely the best woman in the world.
She’s very good in judging when to push and when not to when it comes to him talking about what’s happened. I’ve also seen how he gets after a kid comes in from an abusive situation. I’ve SEEN the dents he’s left in the wall, rather than in the parent(s) of the child that’s been abused. I’ve talked to his fellow doctors. He IS a very good man, however, he does become too attached at times and takes things to heart too often.
Just be certain that this is something you want to do. It’s very expensive to go to medical school AND it’s very time consuming. When you are a resident, that’s where it determines if you can make it.
If this is indeed something you want to do, I wish you well in the endeavour :o)