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I am not insensible to how difficult the job of a physician is in general, and a surgeon’s job in particular, but guess what?

People have jobs that impinge on their personal lives, are difficult to deliver with encompassing perfection, and the outcomes of their professional efforts can have an impact on people, especially if they don’t do their job to perfection.

An airline pilot? A ship’s captain? A bridge or building architect?

The list could go on.

But if you decide to take a job as a surgeon, you better get it through your head that when you are being depended on to do you job which you get well compensated for, your time is not your own when your profession calls. Expecially if you took that job to fulfill a surgical task that people’s lives may well depend on.

If she isn’t tough enough or dedicated enough to accept that, she needs to find another job. I don’t want her to be my surgeon if I am in a car wreck. They pay surgeons a lot of money, and there is a reason for that. Because when the pager goes off at 3 AM, you are not only available sound asleep in your bed, you jump out of bed and get to the hospital because PEOPLE’S LIVES DEPEND ON YOU.

You don’t want that responsibility, GET THE HELL OUT OF THE PROFESSION.

Sorry. The tone of this article just pissed me off. She wanted the money, prestige, and respect, but didn’t want the work.