hmmm
well i come from a medical family, so i'm biased, obviously. quick points and i'll let you carry on. i just can't let it slide.

EDIT: actually this has turned very positive from first few posts i read so you can ignore the below you lubbly peepl :)

Some doctors/nurses/etc are fucking amazing. they work longer than you can imagine, deal with stuff daily I couldnt handle once in a lifetime and are expected to give their entire life up for the job.
Some are arseholes. Often because it's got to a point where they just can't care any more but also because in every job sometimes folk are just bad at it and some folk are just arseholes.
you know those days when you just can't be arsed to go in to work? Doctors don't really get to do that.
You know that 72 hour shift you pulled while you were training for your art degree? and the shift 4 hours of disturbed sleep later where you had to console those poor parents? and you were so tired and hungry the best option left was amphetamine, when you know EXACTLY what that does to you? what do you think months of that does to morale and your caring attitude?
Most of the doctors i know have regular nutters coming in with one complaint or another. Proper nutters like we'd dedicate a QOTW to.
I was in a car accident and tried to get an appointment to get another sicknote, unfortunatly so many people thought they had swineflu i couldnt get one for a week. The doctor i saw told me the percentage was "about 5% flu, 70% bit of a cold, 25% wanting a week off work".
I live in the UK, we get it free. Ok, sometimes it not perfect but hells bells I don't earn enough to have paid for the pacemaker that gave my dad an extra 15 years of life.
I've got stories coming out of my ears but dear god it's not a job i could do.

don't get me started on the folk who kick off and sue because the doctor thinks homeopathy doesnt cure childhood cancer.

rant over. i'm sorry. kittens.
(DreddPirateBob has watched every scifi film ever on, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 7:32, Reply)