This Friday Lecture Note is not about any medical condition. It’s an advice that a pediatrician gave to us in a lecture today.
She said, “To be a doctor, you should have at least four things.
1. Eagle’s eyes
The more you have experience with patients, you will be able to know your patient’s condition only by looking at them.
2. Steel mental
If you can’t stand looking at blood and injury, if you can’t stand hearing harsh comment, don’t be a doctor.
3. Angel’s heart
You will stay awake while many people sleep, to be in emergency department or to help those in operating room. You will surely be tired. If you don’t really do it to help people then it will be difficult.
4. Lady’s hands
Especially when you do palpation, do it in smooth and gentle way. Or if you someday become a surgeon, don’t suture like the way you stitch a gunny sack. Learn how to make good suture.”
The lecture she gave was about congenital heart disease and now I have to rearrange my lecture note before sharing it in my blog.
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One of my high school classmate who is very afraid of blood, gore and anything in between had a very stupid idea of going to a nursing school 😛 He didn’t even last for two months when he quit.
Poor him. How is he now?
I myself am still disturbed by some pictures in my textbooks anyway.
Fortunately, he’s quite successful now. In fact, he’s now working at the actuarial department of AIA in HK. It’s a very high-paying job, but there’s no way I would personally want that job lol…
I remember a tutor said, “Actuary is math since it involves probability.”
Yeah, it’s math… math that is as boring as hell.
So that’s not your version of “magical math”?
Don’t get me wrong, I really like advanced math. In fact, many of the math that I know are more advanced than what they used for actuarial calculations. However, I really mean what I mean, that it’s really booooring 🙂
Oh, I see. Then it’s your part to make it interesting.
Of course, it can be interesting. What I really mean is that their work itself is boring…
This was amazing. My dad is a doctor and I find these all to be true and characteristic of him. Thanks for the share 🙂 Check my blog out at https://itsdollydarling.wordpress.com and feel free to make any suggestions!
-Dolly
Thank you. Please send my regards to your father.
I still have to learn to have all those four things.
All right, I’ll check your blog out. 🙂
I will! You’ll get them down. It’s not just a lifetime of practice it’s a meticulous art as well 🙂
This is great, because it shows how much more there is to being a doctor besides having the knowledge (although that obviously does help!!) 🙂
Thank you. Knowledge and these four things should help doctors to make decision.
Those are definitely wonderful qualities for a physician. Looks like you did your research.
Thank you.
I do research but I haven’t made paper (duh).
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