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Are dentists the only doctors who cause you immense pain (even with anaesthesia, root canal issues) and afterwards you go "omg thank you SO much", give them an insane amount of money and then leave?
When I do anaesthesia for surgery and the patients can feel something with a peripheral block (usually cervical, bleh) I'm always the bad guy 😩
see the THING IS I don't feel like I ever worked hard enough to have "earned" the burnout, which is. probably how we got here.
Well put. (Source: Writing About Writing Facebook page)
as a lawyer who’s been practicing for six years now I can say with certainty that this 100% applies to lawyers
(Hi. I saw that your answers to anons are so kind-hearted and sensible !)
I´m just curious if someone has (or had) feelings like me- I´m graduating in july and I´m absolutely sad and terrified by the thought I´ll be graduating medical university.I cannot accept the fact that I´m quitting one huge period in my life and now I should move into another country with another language, ( a foreign student ) work shifts and the thing that terrifies me the most is -zero skills and zero knowledge for practising... The closer I am to july, the worse feelings I have and when my classmates talk about graduation party I´ll become 100% anxious.. Am I even qualified enough to choose the field I want to? What if I fail? I´m still not sure about my direction in professional field, I can´t imagine myself anywhere in 10 years.. (feeling like a thrashbag :(( ) I haven´t started looking for a job yet).
Do you guys (if some of your other followers see this post) know some "prodigy" who is emotional and anxious about graduating university?( Bc I think it´s an occasion associated with pride, happiness and satisfaction .. :) ))
Have a nice day, I hope I didn´t make a negative impression on students here who are still studying but so can be the reality and life sometimes ..
Hi!
I think it's perfectly valid to feel like this and to answer shortly - no, you're not qualified for any of this, but none of us were. When I started, I barely remembered anything and all things practical were an absolute disaster. But you learn every single day and while it can be very hard at the beginning (trust me, I went home from work every day crying, thinking I must be the dumbest creature on earth, thankfully it didn't last long), it will 100% get better. You won't even notice that transition. But the next year when your new coworkers fresh from school start coming, you'll notice how much you already know.
I don't know how it is in your country, but here you can actually change specialty if you feel like it and I have friends who have done it. Sometimes choosing is hard, what can I say.
Also, no one, absolutely no one will treat you like you know anything after school. Yeah, they might expect some general theoretical knowledge, but that's it. Unless you find an exceptionally bad team of people, I don't think your senior coworkers would be mean to you. We all know what it was like to start at zero.
Anyway, I'm sure others will have more to say! :) My advice would be to try and focus on the present. I suspect in few months time you will actually celebrate the end of school and exams and the new, practical medicine will feel exciting :)
Hey! Hey! Stop that! Feeling guilty for taking time off is the first sign that you should be taking much more time off. You aren't helping anyone burning yourself out, and as important our job is, it is just a job. You come first, your job comes only after you. And I know it's hard, especially when you are already in a not great mental space, and especially if your attending is pushing this on you, but you aren't alone in this, your time off is someone else's time in. If we all do just our part, it should be balanced. Plus you know our job is 80% boring and 20% oh god, it's fine if you don't do anything in that 80%, because you are saving your strength and getting mentally ready for those oh god moments.
I know it's hard, letting yourself rest freely, but you deserve it! You are an amazing human being and an amazing doctor, please take care of yourself ❤️ Sending you warm internet hugs, and I hope you find your peace!
I hope it's okay that I post this, I suspect there are other people that could use such nice message as well.
Thank you for the kind words ♥ Hopefully I will shoo this entire state of being away somehow.
In the past few months I started feeling very guilty every time I leave work, especially after a shift. I never really struggled with thoughts like that, but lately I've caught myself thinking "should I even be going home? Do I deserve to go home? I didn't really do anything all shift... Do I deserve this??" and it's been awful. I can't really enjoy the time off afterwards.
Work has been pretty tough lately, I have the absolute best coworkers, but the relationships between wards have been abysmal. I'd say I'm not in the best mental shape and the feelings of guilt might stem from that. (Also from my head consultant always making me feel guilty for taking absolutely ANY time off.)
I don't have any positive updates, I'm afraid. Just that I started playing The Sims 2 again after they re-released it recently so that's how I keep reality away, lol. Also planning my next UK trip. I was dreading a London transfer, but then I found out that I can avoid London altogether and make things faster and cheaper and that made me even more excited hah.
I feel FATIGUED like send her to the seaside for her health type fatigue
Had to share this here XD (via)
fuuuuck that is my circus. are those…? yep… those are my monkeys….. goddammit.
tento tyden mame statnice z detskeho lekarstvi. citim a jsem uplne vylitej, dutej jak vul. kdyz poranu otevru knizky nic si nepamatuju ze vcerejska a cim se blizi termin tym to jde hur. mam chut tam ani nejit, protoze bych se ztrapnil jak hovado a naseru akorat celou komisii. bude to mazec no.. jake byli statnice u tebe? :) co delat den pred statnici abych se nezblaznil? dekuji a prejou hodne sil na ARO a JIPce :)))
Ahoj, neviem, či ťa poteším, alebo nie, ale ja som to mala úplne rovnako. Naše štátnice z pediatrie boli moje súkromné peklo - komisia hrozná a otázky ešte horšie, nenávidela som pediatriu :D Ten pocit, že si nič nepamätáš, je úplne bežný, ja som ho mala pravidelne, ale veľmi často to bol iba pocit, a keď sa človek na skúške sústredí, ide to nejako samo. Nemusíš si pamätať všetko, dôležité je proste hovoriť. O niečom. O čomkoľvek.
Obávam sa, že ja nedokážem dávať dobré rady na skúšky, lebo som ich sama nezvládala veľmi dobre, môj stres bol vždy off the charts. Ale niekedy je dobré proste večer pred skúškou vypnúť, radšej ísť spať alebo si pozrieť seriál a trochu si oddýchnuť, to sa potom hlave lepšie rozmýšľa na skúške. A určite treba využívať každý oddych naplno - neučiť sa pri jedle, pri káve a tak.
Určite tam ale choď! Nikdy nevieš, čo sa stane, niekedy proste treba trochu šťastia ;) Ak sa nechceš po škole venovať pediatrii, ber to ako nutné zlo - treba to spraviť a je jedno, ako :D Niekedy sa človek strápni (ako ja na interne), ale spraví to, niekedy to ide so šťastím a ľahko. Moje myšlienky v zúfalstve boli už len také, že musím veriť tomu, že niečo v tej hlave mám, aj keď to tak nevyzerá. (A občas aj komisia pomôže.) V tomto štádiu už treba asi len opakovať, čítať a veriť, že sa ešte niečo na tie vedomosti nabalí.
Budem držať palce, nech to ide čo najlepšie!! 🍀(A teda pardon, že nemám nejakú lepšiu radu.)
Our ICU has been a very sad place lately. A very, very sad place that really shouldn't look like this before Christmas, but I guess that's the fate of an ICU. I finished my shift this morning and now I'm going home to my family, hopefully to not think of anything medical for a few days. Last week was hell and I'm still having troubles sleeping. Maybe I wasn't made for this...
