1) There are few greater feelings in the world than when a patient profusely thanks you for helping them and changing their life. It happens more than you think.

2) The intellectual challenge of medicine is really fun, such as interpreting a tricky EMG (my fav) or trying to figure out the best way to treat a patient.

3) Being sick is really rough, and I love trying to be the compassionate person who treats my patients the way I hope to be treated in that situation.

4) I do get respect, sometimes more than I feel I deserve!

5) My kids are proud of me. My daughter thinks what I do is so neat. I got to give the doctor talk to her class one day and all the kids wrote me a thank you card.

6) I get to spend much of my day walking around and not crammed behind a desk.

7) This might not be true of everyone, but I love working with my hands, and medicine gives me tons of opportunities to do so.

8) The pay… well, it’s pretty great. There, I said it.

9) Lots of job security in this economy.

10) A lot of physician jobs do give you the flexibility to work part-time. And because the compensation is so good, you can afford to work part-time.

11) There are so many options within medicine: you can be a teacher, you can do research, you can work with patients, you can be an administrator… or all of the above.

12) The privilege to get to do and see things that most people never get to do or see. I mean, I’ve seen an open heart surgery, dissected a dead body, counseled patients at the end of their life, administered life support, and I’m just a rehab doc. Seriously, how amazing is that?

13) The stories. I love a great story, and I love getting to know new patients and hear their stories. I feel like I could practically write a book about every single patient I meet. They’re all fascinating in their own way. Especially in my field.

(by http://doccartoon.blogspot.com.es/)

Being a med-student is all about pursuing your lifetime dream only to discover that when it seems to come true, when you finally get to med school after all that study you put on through during high school to score the best grades ever in your finals, it is really only the beginning. 

You are living your dream, but often it looks (and feels) slightly more like an nightmare, with all the exams and the stress and the pressure and the HUGE amount of things to study, to memorize, to know, to understand and, specially, to be able to apply in “real life” (because of course, it doesn’t seem like real life, because it feels like no one could ever survive that kind of intensiveness in their lives and get away to tell the story). 

But sure enough we can and we will. Because, after all this is our dream, isn’t it? 

and today starts the second series of Mary’s Anatomy!
a little bit nervous but very looking forward to nine more months of learning interesting and awesome things about the human body and how it works :)

with new characters, new stories and new dramas! Don’t miss the next episode, because we won’t either.