Doctors, When Did You Wish You Had a Different Profession?

Doctors of Reddit, what are some moments that made you wish you had never became a doctor?

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[deszalt]

Emotional whiplash from the 1st and 2nd story lol.

[truepercula]

71 hours into a shift and one hour of sleep, . . .seriously, . . . as a patient I do not want you coming close to me.

[HamaScarlocke]

Really breaks the tension of the story when the tts suddenly has a seizure mid way through :/ I get that it’s a content mill but it can’t be too hard to review your videos for errors before uploading

[swimfast]

When I was in the hospital I had doctors out in the hallway screaming at each other arguing about what pain medication to give me. I ta k e dilaudid at home But when I went to the hospital the ER doctors wouldn't prescribe any dilaudid. The next morning when I woke up I was in terrible pain. My normal doctor came in and asked what was wrong and I told her that they had given me any pain medicine all night. She went outside of the room and started screaming at the ER doctor saying why didn't you give her any pain medicine and they argued back-and-forth for half an hour before the other doctor finally agreed to put me on pain medicine. It's moments like that that frustrate me the most about doctors when they think that just because you're young and coming to the ER for pain that you're just looking to get drugs and they don't treat you properly because they make assumptions about you being addicted or whatever.

[tw]

We had a chance to do an internship during high school for extra credit. I picked a nearby doctors office. Not sure what direction I was going but gore and smells didn’t bother me so I figured what the heck. What turned me off was the people. I am very sorry you are sick but please don’t take it out on me. I have empathy and patience up to a certain point. Cross that line and my brain to mouth filter stops working. I hung in there and got my credit but never again. Found out I was good with math so I became a bookkeeper/tax preparer.

[dhampir_days]

the "fly maggots only eat dead skin, they're helping!" comments reminds me of a reddit story I saw in another one of these videos where a guy had a giant growth on one side of his face, covering his eye and everything and full of maggots. the skin came clean off and there was fresh, pink skin underneath. the maggots had consumed so much dead skin it allowed new skin to grow underneath. the submitter said something like it was one of the cleanest skin removals they ever had.

[didyasaysomethinme]

3:30 "... but the nurses were running around dealing with other things and the guy drowned in it." Being too busy with more important patients than just some lousy homeless guy is a pretty shitty excuse for devaluing a patient to death. But I guess it's probably easier when it's not likely that any family or friends will show up asking questions or demanding answers. After all, who's gonna miss one homeless guy? 😏 I can't blame that doctor for washing his hands of the medical profession and all of the people who turn it into a travesty.

[brandonmartin-moore]

That first story is one hell of a way to start it.

[DeadHouseMouse]

Not a human doctor but the things that turned me off from being a vet are

1) Pulling a maggot/larvae/grub about the size of my thumb out of my cat’s neck who was barely older than a kitten at the time

2) The absolute rage & horror I feel hearing about animal abuse cases (the Kero case was just starting to come to light at the time, that was the final straw)

3) Holding my childhood dog as she died on the way to the animal hospital

[lynx]

The reading program is broken af though.

[roryfitzpatric]

Well, I'm never ever drinking Strawberry Quik again, thanks for that.

[mysteryminx]

In one of the worst moments of my life, I have never been SO grateful for my mother drafting an iron clad, adamant DNR. She took every moment of guilt I had away with three precisely written pages. I can't say how important it is to register an DNR. And tape it to the refrigerator, EMTs are trained to look for it there.Thank God for anyone willing to join the medical profession, and yes, this includes your veterinarian.

[allblack]

Yep, these stories make me feel better about pursuing a career in music.

[steweygrrr]

Its effing disgusting that people becoming doctors are saddled with the debt that they are. $10, 000 a year interest? Fuck that noise. The loan -sharks- respectable non predatory companies could charge five times less interest and still profit but they won't. In the end what is it for? The company having more money? For what? It's already profitable, why do they need more? Why do they have to punish not just the doctors but their future patients who end up getting charged more because of loan debt? Are they trying to gate keep the profession so that only people who can afford it without loans join?

[uwu-iwlo]

i was so excited someone finally posted a new doctor askreddit i have literally watched them all

[Rutawind]

10:55 Pulling off a guy's shoe just to find out that he's part zombie would prolly fuel my nightmares for life.

[raspyraspberries]

I really wish there's more awareness on hospice, end of life and advanced directives. Every ethical health worker will tell you how horrible it is to subject a terminally ill, vegetative or elderly person to medical procedures that just prolong suffering and frankly measures that we know won't really help. People do this cause, humans are selfish inherently and when grief stricken we feel like we need to do everything in our power, or sometimes even just because they want money. But trust me, when you see and care for someone who has a myriad of life supporting machines, when they have no quality of life, and awareness, you'll feel it's so cruel to continue with this.

This might be controversial, but I feel people in those states are no longer the person you grew to love, no longer a parent, sibling, spouse, friend... their personality and everything that made them who they are had vacated the body a long time a go.

[petrichorthoughts]

I plan on becoming a paramedic and I’m mentally preparing myself for the scenes I’ll be called to

[dragonthewolf]

We need to take better care of our doctors, they are people who need mental care just like everyone else. Not only because they have to deal with death, and gross stuff, but also because they get thrown into an ocean of debt and being over worked after and during med school.

[LoveShaysloco]

Not a doctor but when I was a fire emt p. I got a call for a stabbing of a minor. I didn't get an age till my partner and i arived. A break in the perpatraitor wanted to kill the father and got theme song room and stabed a year old. The kid was crying and was begging me not to let him die. It chewd me up for I knew he was dead and nothing a doctor or i could do about it. So I lied to him and told him the harder you fight the harder I will fight for you. I just kept managing pain for him as we took him to the children's emergency. He pased only a quarter of the way there. He was the first person I lost so took it hard. I asked trying to hold back tears his parents for a lock of hair. I turned the lock into a pendant and wore it as a reminder to work harder to give death the finger and say not this one. He was my first my fiance was my second and last