Doctor in your next life?

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  1. Would you want to be a doctor?

    • 34
      Yes, sure would.
    • 53
      No, it wouldn't be my thing.

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Just curious - to all the RN's, NP's, CNS's, etc. out there.....

If you had to do it all over again, would you have became a doctor instead?

Keep in mind all factors to consider: malpractice rates, med school tuition, time committment......

Happy Sunday!

-HG

I would have went to college right out of high school. I would have become a teacher or a lawyer.

No medicine at all!! N O N E

C.

I am one semester from having my teaching credential - why would you choose teaching? Just curious to get your perspective on it.

TIA-hg

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No, the sacrifice isn't worth it to me. Our docs have very little time for their families and anything else. They do their office hours and then take turns being the ER doc or they are on-call for OB. ER on weekends consists of living at the hospital from Friday at 5:30 p.m. until Monday at 8 a.m. You are the only doc all weekend. You are not guaranteed any sleep. You do not see your family unless they come to the hospital to visit you. This happens at least once a month for the docs. Then you take one or two nights during the week again as the ER doc and sleep overnight at the hospital after you've spent all day taking care of patients in your office. Or you are the ER doc during the day while you are seeing patients in your office.

No way Jose . . . .

steph

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No, the sacrifice isn't worth it to me. Our docs have very little time for their families and anything else. They do their office hours and then take turns being the ER doc or they are on-call for OB. ER on weekends consists of living at the hospital from Friday at 5:30 p.m. until Monday at 8 a.m. You are the only doc all weekend. You are not guaranteed any sleep. You do not see your family unless they come to the hospital to visit you. This happens at least once a month for the docs. Then you take one or two nights during the week again as the ER doc and sleep overnight at the hospital after you've spent all day taking care of patients in your office. Or you are the ER doc during the day while you are seeing patients in your office.

No way Jose . . . .

steph

UGH that sounds awful. No amount of $$ would make want to take that lifestyle. And private practice would bore me to tears.

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No, I agree that I like my time off too much. I loved being a nurse and having time to spend with my patients doing the little things that make their stay more tolerable. I also like to be able to teach them(or their parents) on how to take better care of them(selves). I can do overtime whenever I want, not be forced to work crazy hours/call.

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Specializes in private duty/home health, med/surg.

In my "next life" I'd like to be a Powerball winner. I'm not sure what college courses I'd need to take for that...

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I'll be taking my MCAT a 39 and gods willing entering med school at 41....To me the years are not important...I'll be living them anyway. I sure as heck don't want to be banging my head against the wall at 45 thinking "I could have graduated med school this year" If it's one of those things that you have to do, age doesn't matter. Nor do the years of study or the time involved seem so awful. I welcome them as a way to get to where I want to be. I just want to do the fixing. :) Always have, always will.

also if you haven't seen it check out www.oldpremeds.com. It's a source of inspiration for me and reminds me that this can be done, regardless of my age.

I think it's awesome for anyone to try to achieve their lifelong dreams, no matter what age they are. It definitely can be done. In my class (2007), we have several people who are over 30. We have at least two 35 year olds, one 42 year old, and one 52 year old. They are all doing fine as far as I know. Good luck to you!:)
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I`m 40 now and I`m a RN in Germany since `84. I love beeing a nurse with all the highs and lows our job bring it with ......

No, I would not study medicin! I would choose same nurse carrer again.

Since 2 years I found my dream job, and that is beeing a SCHOOL NURSE

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welcome to allnurses.com from very sunny bangkok!

:balloons: :balloons:

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I would not give it a chance even in my next life. :nono:

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