7 Doctors Answer Honest Questions About Medicine, Life, And Everything In Between

Also, I don’t think people realise how often they would be caring for older women.

I'm definitely no doctor, but I was my dad's caregiver for 21 years after his accident left him with catastrophic brain damage. You definitely get desensitized to seeing/handling the patient's genitals/a**l area. I'm sure there are a few messed-up people of any gender who might go into being an OBGYN out of perversity/a desire to peep at naughty bits, but I doubt they last long - if they're that extreme, they're going to slip up and do something wrong and get caught. I do, however, think it's fine for a woman who has been SAed or otherwise traumatized by males to request a female practitioner.

Working inpatient, we see more privates than a lot of seggs workers do, but we get paid less. If it really were about getting to see stuff, we would go into the seggs line of work. I honestly detach myself every time I see things. It's like looking at an arm.

Very true. In 40 years I’ve only encountered one predator, and believe me, he stood out. We all knew and tried hard to do something about it, before two of his victims (former patients) reported him to the police & his registration was suspended (currently on trial for s****l a*****t.) He was creepy and slimy, and towards the end, brazen 🤢

"If I see one more cup of coffee"

OK, that mental image really made me laugh. Thank you.

Most professions are happy to see someone has done a little of their own research to be able to competently discuss matters. The problem with medicine is that if something is online, it's probably someone opposing the general consensus. Just like with religion, it's the people who are certain everyone else is wrong who either (A) figure they can make money on a deeply personal topic by making broad generalizations and not actually knowing their audience personally, or (B) are so angry, paranoid, narcissistic, or suffering from main-character syndrome so badly that they've made a no-money vocation (as opposed to us wierdos who relax or distract ourselves by commenting on social media) out of telling people what to do.

I’m a midwife and yes, it is. Nowadays having to deal with the whole freebirth/wild pregnancy cohort 🙄

i DiD mY OwN reSEArrrCH!!! - would make a snappy epitaph!

Agreed, especially since in another response he mentioned he became a gyno because his sister had cervical cancer :(

I am sorry but your bad experience does not mean all of them are the same. It is really sad you think that because most people working in medical fields chose that particular field because it was the one most interresting or due to family history like the gynecogolist above said. You have idiots in any profession or people who are just incompetent ( personally and/or professional). Why do you think somebody decides to become a gyn of not for helping women? It is not the field where you make the most money, thats for sure

My deepest sympathies. it's a horrible disease.

Pryor?

this is from last thursday. so i doubt they would say the pitt. seeing as how they didnt say the pitt

Are you a medical professional?

Tangent: I worked with a radiologist at my first duty station. Strange guy, but cool once you got to know him. I was working on his PC one day and looking at his certificates and things on the wall while I waited. I saw one and asked what it meant. It was about satellite telemetry. Dude was a rocket scientist and went into radiology. I asked why, and his answer was: “I get paid better.”

You'd be surprised. My mother is very well-off (not THAT well-off, but "luxury lifestyle" well-off) and she's miserable and lonely. Money doesn't buy sincere, real friends, and seeing cool places/vacations are quite empty if you're alone/lonely.

Yup, money may not buy happiness, but it sure does make things easier when you're unhappy.

Prostytoots charge accordingly

I assume the doctors in question are American. Here in Spain we first year resident doctors dont make much more than 24K a year, and that is considering that our basic salary is 12K a year, the rest comes from us working 24 hour shifts in Emergency care without sleep and hardly enough time to eat or bathroom breaks (toilet without cover or seat by the way, and only one shared amongst about 30 of us). We are absolutely miserable, broken, lonely and also near broke. Even so, there are many excellent doctors in third world countries who work harder and get paid less. I'm not in Medicine to make money, for sure, I would work less and get paid more as a cashier. But hopefully I can help people and grow as a person.

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That's what I was thinking, lol.

in most medical professions it takes a number of years to start earning that much, some will never earn that much a year in their career. and most of the time the first 10 or 15 years you are paying off your millions in student loans. im not saying a dr isnt a lucrative position, but i have several family members in the profession, and every single one has expressed a desire to swap places with me, who works construction and will never be rich but has no debt other than my mortgage.

Dangskipy

It was not Luigi. The "proofs" against him have been fabricated. The adjuster was right. And most importantly, it is deplorable that it came to such a level of "correction".

I no longer believe real change is possible within the system or the law. That's over, we lost. Revolution, violent if necessary, is the only hope.

History tells you people don't give up wealth and power by asking nicely.

We don't know that these figures are representative, it's just the actual salaries of the 7 doctors involved. Nor do we know how much experience each of them have or in what sort of capacity they serve, so it could be that the lower paid in only three or four years in and the highest is head of an entire department, we just don't know. EDIT: this was addressed in a later question, apparently it not seniority, but that paediatrics gets a massive proportion of Medicaid cases which pay at a much lower rate. Another example of the screwed US health system.

Rafael: presumably because children earn less money than adults? When the medical business is all about profit as in the USA, you have to look at it from the money point of view.

Lack of major cases requiring surgery? Living on office visits, not surgeries

I can't speak for States outside of California but a hefty percentage of Pediatric Care is paid for by Medicaid in the United States.

Further down, they explain that the salary is low because they're mostly dealing with Medicaid.

Kids aren't wealthy.

I am just guessing, probably because it is a more rarified treatment. Less patients.

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It might just be the regional average. The averages I see online suggest an orthopedic surgeon makes the most out of all specialties, and it's about 585k. If the OP is in a region where there is less demand for peds heart transplant cardiology, it may reflect as a lower pay.

It’s not brain surgery, is it?

You can channel that desire to lie, cheat, and steal ... politician, lawyer, pastor, influencer, CEO...

"unless what makes you happy is criminal and immoral" i dont care if what makes someone happy is buying or selling weed. i dont care if their favorite past time is breaking N**i's noses. as long as the criminal s**t isnt immoral, who cares.

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When life gives you soup, suck it up !

None of us discriminate or have bias. He forgot the word " knowingly". Thats the thing about bias and discrimination, people dont know they are doing it because.. bias.

But women DO get dismissed, so this idea in Larry's mind about women getting dismissed IS sadly normal. He's stating quantifiable facts.

Apocalyptic Excavator: it's much more complicated than just getting more women working as doctors. Most medical training is based around studies and textbooks centred on white men - yes, even in majority non-white nations. Medical training also involves being taught by those who were themselves taught medicine long ago - so they're teaching all sorts of discriminatory and biased ideas (here in the UK, medical practitioners commonly think black people don't need painkillers as much as white people, for example). This "none of us discriminate or have bias regarding patients" claim is proven false. All doctors do so - can't be helped. The way to fix it begins with admitting the problems exist - the doctor writing above is part of the problem. Some medical schools in the UK have noticed the problem and have produced textbooks that feature non-white non-male patients as a matter of routine, to take one example. Much more needs doing.

Admitting it, and starting to fix it

And how women assume we dont value them.

Aside from your complete failure to recognize that Larry's just the messenger you're missing a few other clues about reality. Historically there's been enormous bias in all sorts of research but it's often due to simply not looking for the bigger picture. Crash test dummies are an excellent example. It's not that early crash investigators were dismissing injuries to women, but rather that they simply failed to consider how size and gender affect safety requirements. There's also the problem of not having personal experience of other genders. You can have all the book learning in the world, but it can be difficult to understand things you haven't actually experienced.

that isnt at all what he is saying and you know that. stop looking for things to preach about. hes answering a question, stop offending yourself on others behalf, i promise you they dont want it, pasty whyte woman.