this had better not be hereditary

[fahye]

Dear self:

No. No. Stop it. No matter how much fun you had at hospital today and how much of a kick you'd get out of going into a boys-club specialty, you don't want to be an orthopod.

Please keep that in mind.

Comments

[kcdl.livejournal.com]

Hahaha. I felt the same way about geology. One day I found myself on the beach wondering about the origin of the rocks (god I even broke one open like mum would) and noticing the sign of landslides...and I felt kind of dirty :)

[fahye.livejournal.com]

God, if I ended up Dr. [Surname], Orthopaedic Surgeon, I would NEVER HEAR THE END OF IT. Every orthopod in the Asia-Pacific region knows who my dad is.(Further incentive to move to Europe, perhaps??)

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

if you were to be Dr [Surname], Orthopaedic Surgeon, you might need to like anatomy... yes?

[fahye.livejournal.com]

THAT IS WHAT I AM CLINGING TO.

Stupid hospital, being all hands-on and seven hundred times more fun than my textbooks :D

[kcdl.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm sure it would lose it's novelty eventually...maybe when your dad is like 90 or something.

My mum approached it from the angle of "Well you could do paleontology that's biology related." as a sneaky way of getting me to do geology.

In the end though I guess you should do what makes you happy - even if it is at the expense of making your father positively ecstatic :P

You should definitely go to Europe no matter what, even if it is just for a short time. Working overseas is a real experience.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

I definitely plan to work overseas, although if I want to practice medicine I am limited to English-langauge places (or those with so few doctors that they don't care). I don't know enough about the UK medical system yet to know if I'd want to work there -- I would LOVE to work for the WHO one day and live in Geneva, but that would be decades away.