ignorant people...

I don't know about any of you but i absolutely love the show Grey's Anatomy. The rush, drama, romance, and occasional gushing blood. But i absolutely hate people who say "it looks cool in Grey's Anatomy so i want to be a surgical intern when i'm older". For starters you can't just be a surgical intern, that's only step one of your surgical residency. You can't stay an uneducated surgeon in training your whole life. And secondly, being a surgeon is nothing like that show and you don't become a surgeon because you watched a medical drama. Being a surgeon is about caring for the well being of others, saving lives, and doing boring chart work because it all benefits for the health of the patients. Me myself, I want to be come either a neurosurgeon or a cardio thoracic surgeon. I find it so ignorant of people who think becoming a surgeon/ being a surgeon is like a medical drama t.v. show. Say there's me and another person who wants to be a surgeon in a room with an interviewer for medical school. Here's the difference between the ignorance and true passion of wanting to be a surgeon.

INTERVIEWER: so why do you want to become a surgeon/physician?

OTHER PERSONS RESPONSE: well this one time i was watching grey's anatomy and i thought it looked so cool, plus i wanna meet a hot doctor like Meredith did oh also i hear they get payed a lot.

MY RESPONSE: I've always dreamed of being a surgeon. To think that there's dying people all over the world who could be saved. And i could be the one to save them with just years of studying a practice i could save their lives. I could give their families extra time with them, help them to see the next sunrise, take the next breath, think clearly, walk again, etc. It's amazing i could do that. The hours of sleep i would be loosing pales in comparison to the fact i would be spending them in a hospital doing something to help the well being of another human just like me. I want to put myself to work to be able to wake up and say i get to go save a life today. Yes i know that not every patient will make it, not every gun shot victim will pull through, and not every coronary heart bypass will be successful. But that's part of the job you win and you lose but every time you fight like hell to get that patient out of the operating room not in a body bag. You do every last measure before you call the time of death down to hand massaging the heart just to get back the lightest rhythm of a pulse. That's why i want to be a surgeon/ health care physician. I can get some training then save a life. A few hours of missed sleep could mean a girl who doesn't have to grow up without a father. Not to mention it looks extremely cool haha.

see there's a big difference between the two.Now i'm not saying it's bad to want to become a surgeon at first because you see it on TV. But read up on it there's a lot that could turn you off to doing it, such as you might not have known a bovie is something the burns shut small cuts during surgery and it does have a smell so if things like that disgust you it's not for you. also don't be ignorant and say it's because they make money or doctors are hot. it offends people who actually have a true passion for this.