Yeah, me either really. I've always wanted to be a doctor, but lately I've been looking at other (still mostly medically related) things. It's mostly my insecurity that I can actually pull off something as big as medical school (and more soon, be able to pull off the grades in college that I need to be able to get into medical school) that's been kicking in of late, but it's good in that I'm opening up to other ways of doing things, not just high school -> college -> medical school. I could take a break somewhere, get my paramedic certification and do that for a while and it wouldn't kill me. Would help, actually, because I'd maybe have some money to pay for things like life and school.
I'm also trying to consider things like the hours you work and the types of vacations you get in with my job consideration now, because I've realized that I really like having the weekends and breaks and entire summer off. Which made me conclude that I should be a teacher. Which wouldn't be horrible, if I got something good and easy like teaching gifted classes (because they don't have to stick to any kind of state/nationally mandated curriculum and cover all these things by this date for these standardized tests, so easier). But I think I'd always be wondering what would have happened if I had become a doctor like I always wanted, if I could have actually done it. Anyway, I haven't answered your question at all. Emergency medicine has been my specialty of choice for quite some time now (I used to want cardiothoracic/neurosurgery, to be able to do both, but I switched around age 9, methinks) because of the variety. And the puzzle thing. I thought it was hilarious when House started and we're finding out that he's obsessed with the puzzle of his cases, because that's exactly what drew me to emergency medicine. Because when somebody's wheeled through your door, unconscious and barely breathing, you've got no idea what's wrong but you've got to figure it out and fix it fast. Other specialties, it seems to me, are a lot of repetition. Take cardiac. Heart attack. Heart disease. Heart attack. Heart defect. Heart attack. They're all essentially diagnosed for you once you get them, and mostly all you've got to do is fiddle with their meds. I think I'm going to like med school the best, though, because you get to cycle through everything. Because there's some stuff I'd really like to do, like OB (though the malpractice is horrible. 10 year old kid falls, breaks his leg, parents sue the person who delivered him. Not really, but it's nuts) and NICU and general Peds, etc. I'd have to find a hospital for my emergency medicine that doesn't have separated kid/adult bits, like the hospitals downtown here; it's the children's hospital and the adult one right next to each other. Because I want to be able to do both. But OB is the one that I don't know if I could give up. I'm really into that of late, so I don't know what I'm going to do there. Suffice it to say, I'm not nearly as set in what I'm going to do as I would have been were you to ask me a year ago.
Is your face better now?
No. *kicks it* The wholefacered is gone, but the red patches are not. And they're spreading. Ish. There's one on my ear now. And thus I am worried. But even worse is the hypersensitivity. Because this means that I can't even try to cover it up with anything at mock trial tonight. And I don't know how far the hypersensitivity goes, so I haven't tried putting anything anywhere else on my face either because I don't want my eyelids to swell up or something. I dunno. I've been putting aloe vera on it since last night because that's the only thing that I'm not reacting to, but the weight of it or something is still hurting my cheek. (The right one. Because the left isn't as bad.)
Oh, and, but no. I'm now reacting to the aloe. WTF? Okay, House? If you can figure this out and cure me in the next three hours, I'll let you watch while I fuck Cameron on the couch in Cuddy's office find an appropriate thank you.
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Date: 2007-03-30 06:50 pm (UTC)Yeah, me either really. I've always wanted to be a doctor, but lately I've been looking at other (still mostly medically related) things. It's mostly my insecurity that I can actually pull off something as big as medical school (and more soon, be able to pull off the grades in college that I need to be able to get into medical school) that's been kicking in of late, but it's good in that I'm opening up to other ways of doing things, not just high school -> college -> medical school. I could take a break somewhere, get my paramedic certification and do that for a while and it wouldn't kill me. Would help, actually, because I'd maybe have some money to pay for things like life and school.
I'm also trying to consider things like the hours you work and the types of vacations you get in with my job consideration now, because I've realized that I really like having the weekends and breaks and entire summer off. Which made me conclude that I should be a teacher. Which wouldn't be horrible, if I got something good and easy like teaching gifted classes (because they don't have to stick to any kind of state/nationally mandated curriculum and cover all these things by this date for these standardized tests, so easier). But I think I'd always be wondering what would have happened if I had become a doctor like I always wanted, if I could have actually done it.
Anyway, I haven't answered your question at all. Emergency medicine has been my specialty of choice for quite some time now (I used to want cardiothoracic/neurosurgery, to be able to do both, but I switched around age 9, methinks) because of the variety. And the puzzle thing. I thought it was hilarious when House started and we're finding out that he's obsessed with the puzzle of his cases, because that's exactly what drew me to emergency medicine. Because when somebody's wheeled through your door, unconscious and barely breathing, you've got no idea what's wrong but you've got to figure it out and fix it fast. Other specialties, it seems to me, are a lot of repetition. Take cardiac. Heart attack. Heart disease. Heart attack. Heart defect. Heart attack. They're all essentially diagnosed for you once you get them, and mostly all you've got to do is fiddle with their meds.
I think I'm going to like med school the best, though, because you get to cycle through everything. Because there's some stuff I'd really like to do, like OB (though the malpractice is horrible. 10 year old kid falls, breaks his leg, parents sue the person who delivered him. Not really, but it's nuts) and NICU and general Peds, etc. I'd have to find a hospital for my emergency medicine that doesn't have separated kid/adult bits, like the hospitals downtown here; it's the children's hospital and the adult one right next to each other. Because I want to be able to do both. But OB is the one that I don't know if I could give up. I'm really into that of late, so I don't know what I'm going to do there. Suffice it to say, I'm not nearly as set in what I'm going to do as I would have been were you to ask me a year ago.
Is your face better now?
No. *kicks it* The wholefacered is gone, but the red patches are not. And they're spreading. Ish. There's one on my ear now. And thus I am worried. But even worse is the hypersensitivity. Because this means that I can't even try to cover it up with anything at mock trial tonight. And I don't know how far the hypersensitivity goes, so I haven't tried putting anything anywhere else on my face either because I don't want my eyelids to swell up or something. I dunno. I've been putting aloe vera on it since last night because that's the only thing that I'm not reacting to, but the weight of it or something is still hurting my cheek. (The right one. Because the left isn't as bad.)
Oh, and, but no. I'm now reacting to the aloe. WTF? Okay, House? If you can figure this out and cure me in the next three hours, I'll
let you watch while I fuck Cameron on the couch in Cuddy's officefind an appropriate thank you.