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See I have thought about a career in ER but I am not sure I can get the job for it in Canada - yes here in the UK I could go into it but in canada its way too highly competitive for an international grad, thats a fact…so I have given up all hope on ER:/
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I disagree - I work with and am friends with pharmacists and yeah it is starting again and not creative and just not me
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hmmm
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you can always try, can’t you?
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I made this mistake 17 yrs ago and I was quite happy with my change of career. I was good at communication and made that my career. But in the last 6-7 yrs not a single day has gone by without me regretting my decision. Personally, I wouldn’t advise you to change your career as a doctor.
And to be honest, every job gets monotonous after a while and there is no escaping from it.
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what did you switch to honeybeez?? what do you miss?
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I am a young doctor here in Toronto. I can tell you it’s not that bad. First to 2nd year is usually very tough but you get used to it. And I can understand your frustration but keep yourself together. You have worked really hard for this. You can PM me if you have any questions or concerns. I would do my best advise you. Wish you well.
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Don’t become a doctor, the western medical scene is all poison You’re taught to poison people with the medicine, instead of healing people the Big Pharma creates a drone from which to suck more money out. Fill the patient with poison and then keep the person sick so he can be addicted to medicine. Save your soul and get in to some other kind of work. Hope you don’t end up prescribing poison to unsuspecting patience Not that it would be your fault, its just doctors are taught that the medicine they practice can heal, but instead creates more disease.
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What a load of BS. You have no clue what it means to be a doctor and how dare you assume we wish to keep patients sick.
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Thank you:) I may PM you in a couple of days if thats ok…i do have questions!
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Something a doctor would say, becuase they’ve been taught to say this. No hard feelings, but that’s just my opinion.
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you have no idea what youre talking about.,especially about european medicine. I think the US is a bit different.
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Poison in Poison out.
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This hits too close to home! Inspiron my husband went to med school and even finished residency but opted out of the field entirely. He thought med school was awfully boring since it required a lot of memorization and not any creative thinking skills. But he still decided to give residency a try thinking practical life would be better but he became really disappointed with medicine and how it’s being handled in the US. Doctors are constantly haggling with insurance companies and it has truly become a haggling business at least in the US. He actually started his own business while he was in med school and it really took off.
But I think my husband is just lucky! He graduated with a lot of debt from med school but was able to pay it off in just two years thanks to his business earnings. He is earning a lot more in his business than he would as a specialist doctor but it comes with a lot of risk! Will his earnings be the same the year later or the year after that? Who knows? He just loves being his own boss, being creative and expanding his business so he has no regrets. But it’s a lot more stressful because at the end of the day you write your own pay check and you have to make sure it keeps increasing every year. Also he works a lot more in his business than he would have as an attending. We haven’t gone for vacation in two years because he refuses to take time off!
Medicine will always remain a very stable, well reimbursed field and a very respectable one too. But it just doesn’t suit some people’s personality, like my husband’s. It’s not the be all and end all of everything. At the end of the day you have to decide if it truly makes you happy. I honestly think though that just because you have put in the long hours of studying and endured night calls doesn’t mean that you are indebted to the profession for the rest of your life.
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I think what you’re going right now is the easy part of the process. It only gets more difficult from now on.
I changed my field 2 years ago. It was not an easy decision, and its still not easy. When it gets hard you will again be with doubts about your decision and you may even think about quitting or returning to medicine again.
I dont know what else to say, but you’re welcome if you’ve any questions.
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thank you for the laugh mcpaindu, truly needed some entertainment. :k:
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Well like I said its my opinion but you choose to laugh or take heed, up to you :).
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Interesting viewpoint and it is very well known by doctors and medical science.
Everything is poison by scientific definition if taken in amount more than recommended.
Even water and oxygen can be considered ‘poison’ if consumed in large amount.
Yes, there are medicines which are labled as POISON.
Your claim of doctors creating diseases or making them addicted is intriguing. There are laws and disciplinary/punitive methods in place against doctors and pharmaceutical companies.
Post-marketing observations have made many medicines taken out of the market.
Some doctors may make wrong judgment but the idea and intention is not what you mentioned. No need to make such generalized statements.
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it reminds me an essay, “are doctors men of science?”
theme is, doctors dont spread awareness of disease prevention but let the people get diseases, and cure them.
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btw, bioinfomatics is more interesting field, you can easily switch to this field by adding few computer science courses to you academics.