7 Reasons Why Doctors Are Special Creatures

[Anonymous]

I believe that doctors are a different kind of human. Maybe we share the same skeleton with them but mentally, they are made differently than us. I believe that doctors are made and they are destined to be doctors. They are chosen to be, before they were born. Nobody can be a doctor, if they are not chosen to be.

See why:

(In alphabetical order)

1) Big amount of knowledge.

I have only gave a quick look to those books doctors study. I was shocked, and I thought it’s impossible for the regular brain to learn all of them.

2) Big amount of patience.

Even the most patient non-doctor person would freak out and go crazy after the tons of silly questions some of their patients (we call them hypochondriacs) ask. It’s really a miracle that they still tolerate them.

3) Extremely strong memory.

You don’t need only knowledge in order to learn all those medical books word by word. You have to memorize each and every one of them, without any failures. Your patients lives are in your hands, so if you don’t memorize them, it’s only you who is going to be blamed.

4) Not feeling disgusted.

For example, surgeons see live almost on a daily basis, parts of human body. Well, I don’t think most of us would afford seeing this picture without feeling disgusted.

5) No signs of emotions.

Well, this is not something so special, because many non-doctor people tend to have lack of emotion. But still I believe even the most emotionless non-doctor person, one day he/she would break down after seeing so many people dying in their hands almost every day. Also I have noticed how cool they remain, when they announce the death of a person to his/her relatives. It takes a lot of balls to do this. Personally I couldn’t afford to announce the death of a person to his/her own relatives, being afraid of their reaction.

6) No signs of stress.

To my eyes, their job seems to be extremely stressful. More stressful than any other job. You have to be under constant pressure and make it as fast as possible, in order to save someone’s life. Normally stress can make your performance worse, because you are not focused. But surprisingly doctors manage to pull it off.

7) Sacrificing their personal lives.

Can any human live without having a personal life? It’s impossible. As a doctor you have to live for others, since your patients are depending on you. Whatever you do, if one of your patients calls you, you must run to them as fast as possible.

PS: I admire them indeed.

[Kantana]

They very much have my utmost respect.

[Library]

They are awesome creatures.

[zagor]

4) That doesn't look like any human body I have ever seen.

But anyway, yeah, it takes some effort to get into/through med school. But I have known some people who are not very mentally healthy who have done so; I was never tempted to try.

[Fathoms77]

Just say "no" to the deification of doctors.