Most people appreciate their doctors. They want their doctors to be objective, scientific, detached and yet caring, compassionate and sensitive. In short, they need doctors who are more like healing saints than people.
It makes sense that people will want this from their doctors. When you lie on an examination table with a doctor offering your anus, vagina, penis, or other body embargo, you want to believe that the person doing it for you is clean, helpful, honest, competent, and doing the best for you. You do not want to think that the doctor is some kind of pervert with a degree and license for abuse.
Well, I am afraid that I have bad news for you. I was in medicine and I know.
Put yourself in the seat of a doctor. Once he or she was like you, a layman. They went to kindergarten and classroom school, told what they were told, learned how to pass exams and get the expected answers, and as a result made high marks. They continued to do this until they entered medical school. They were selected for their grades and test results.
For some jobs, applicants must pass individual tests to give some indication of their nature. Are they antisocial, are they honest if they steal? You would like to know about employees before giving them work. However, for those who apply for a doctor’s work, there is no such character testing. Applicants are selected through academic testing. And these people will be trusted with human lives.
Will getting good results in the field of chemistry, physics or mathematics make you an excellent doctor? Of course not. Does physiology, anatomy and biochemistry of compassion know you? They can make you a good physiologist, anatomist, or biochemist, but they have nothing to do with compassion. In fact, since most medical sciences rely heavily on cruel animal research, torture, and the killing of millions of dogs, cats, monkeys, rats, and other animals each year, there is nothing further than compassion than medicine.
In fact, medical education has been carefully designed to rid the laity of blood and guts so that they can become doctors. Working with sick people, some with severe pain, anxious, scary, helpless, requires a cool head. It is important that doctors keep calm when everyone else is on the verge. Of course, in the real world you need to learn to be cool and grouped in a crisis. Since the medical student is not selected for anything other than tests, the fact is that most students cannot match this ideal. If all you had to do with patients was to get their medical history in writing and take a test on which drug to give them, this is not a problem for doctors, especially if the tests are multiple choice, because they are in medical school and on medical licensing tests.
But medical care requires different skills and personalities, and not just a few tests. That is why medicines have so many specialties for which students can choose. Medical school takes four years. The first two years are textbooks and laboratories. Over the past two years, you can try different medical specialties for several weeks to several months to find out what you like. Some people like the excitement of crisis. They usually go to emergency medicine. They like the adrenaline attack of a heart attack or car accident. They do not like it when people slowly die from chronic diseases and side effects of drugs. They prefer long-term care. Come in, get a patch, and contact another doctor for follow-up.
Others who get a boost from stress go to surgery. Imagine the rush that you feel when you cut a stranger's chest, blood is beating everywhere, nurses hand you clamps to stop the flow, machines give the patient a pulse and breathing signal faster, sweat drips from your dripping forehead by a nurse, the anesthesiologist warns that the patient enters a cardiac arrest, and all this time, being above the fight in his behavior, breaking dirty jokes with the nurses and talking with the time-sharers with the anesthesiologist. What job!
For those who prefer to look more like an old doctor, there is family medicine. You can see children, parents, pregnant mothers, old people, the whole range of humanity and all sorts of problems. When you get tough, you just send them to another specialist. People trust you and tell you their life secrets. This medicine is lite, a great specialty for laid people.
I remember the family doctor I visited on my 30th birthday, at that time in my life, before I got into medicine, and when I still believed in regular check-ups. He did a thorough exam, including a rectal exam, to look at prostate enlargement and other signs of inflammation. I did not expect this. “Pull your pants and bend over,” he told me. He was a tall, blond, handsome doctor, about 6 years old, unmarried, but apparently heterosexual. Is it really necessary? ", I asked." Yeah. “So, I leaned over, slipped on it with vazolin jelly, and it disappeared, as I embarrassed embarrassed:“ How is your sex life? "He asked, pausing inside to understand him." Just fine, "I replied, laughing a little that he hadn’t even taken me to lunch.
Soon after I entered medical school. Before I started classes, I voluntarily went to a local low-income medical clinic, hoping to gain more experience. They dressed me in a white coat, called me "student doctor", and I never did a pelvic exam for an 18-year-old woman. The doctor first passed the exam, and then instructed me to feel the cervix, since I uncomfortably stuck my gloved hand in an unfamiliar woman, slightly smelling the vagina. The days of my workday are over. I already got access to the nations. body.
Some guys would be envious, I suppose, until the pus turns you off. Imagine which guys became gynecologists. They can tell women to shoot them all day, all kinds of women. Then they can stick their fingers into their vaginas, anus and feel their breasts. They want their patients to feel like experts on women, although they were only men and never had a period, were a bra, or some strange guy was exploring their vagina.
Of course, there is a flaw in this specialty. What would you do with your feeling of women to explore purulent, smelly, sick vagina every day? When your wife becomes a mistress, do you reflexively reach for your gloves and grease?
Although most gynecologists are men, urologists are not mostly women. Women want a strange doctor to examine their genitals. But most men would be strange if a woman doctor checked their penises. Of course, it is strange that a person also probes your penis. What kind of person is attracted to urology and life-long specialty in dealing with problems of the penis and prostate gland?
The same can be asked from proctologists. Imagine being a medical student if you are interested in working with rectum and colon. What would you do with the feeling of humanity to look at cigarette butts all day, year after year?
As you can see, it would be difficult to make a choice of specialty. If you are truly an idealist and have come to medicine to end suffering, you feel frustrated and distressed. I know a rheumatologist who could no longer cope with how her patients slowly die, not being able to do much to alleviate their suffering. She decided to change her specialty and become an anesthesiologist, so all her patients will be unconscious and she will not need to personally recognize them.
Those medical students who do not fit into any other form and are a bit strange, usually become psychiatrists, avoiding blood and guts, looking for the mind. Psychiatrists, who themselves are a basket, often feel more emotional relief and increase self-esteem, just listening to other nations. problems throughout the day, which makes psychiatry very therapeutic for the doctor. This is an especially attractive specialty for medical students who love LSD or peyote and have remained at a high level in most of their basic science courses. They can really get into the nations. twisted fantasies and hallucinations. But beware of starving power. They can call you crazy, lock you up and keep you at a loss for the rest of your life if you want.
Indeed, doctors have all sorts of powers over society. They have the right to practice people with drugs and surgery. As a doctor, you can accidentally kill a patient or make him look random and leave with him if you can show that this is a standard medical procedure. And you can even pay for the services of the deceased patient. Now it is power. For some people, this power is attractive, so they became doctors in the first place. Of course, as in politics, anyone brought to power is the person who should not receive it. People who are increasingly becoming known as the “Doctor” and possess the power, money and prestige of our culture for the medical profession are not always the best people to treat patients fairly, sensitively and with patient interests. These doctors do not serve their patient needs. Patients cater to the needs of their doctors.
Along with the power of medicine come money. First of all, medicine is a business. This refers to the treatment of disease, which means that the doctor does better when you are sick, and not when you are healthy. This forces the doctor, as an auto mechanic, to put destruction in you. This means that the doctor is invested in disease and treatment and is the enemy of health and prevention. If you went to medical school to help heal humanity, this sad fact about the fundamentals of financially stimulating medicine may be enough to make you give up the profession. It made me leave. It made me realize that if you want to be healthy, you need to stop doing what makes you hurt, including going to the doctors.
Therefore, the next time you are probed, keep in mind that the person engaged in sounding is no different from others. They are not necessarily saints who vow poverty to treat the sick and help prevent disease. They are not unreasonable objective, objective, mature people who can distance their personal feelings from their work. These are just ordinary people who have been licensed to practice. They have the same perversions, prejudices, stupidity, personal interests and petty lives, like the rest of humanity, but they attract a profitable and powerful business of disease.
Say: "Ah!"
