(Snippets from the frontline)
Mammas don’t let your babies grow up to be doctors
Becoming a physician requires intellectual agility intertwining book-learned material with hands-on training.
Medical school prerequisites sort out the best and brightest, yet surviving this gauntlet may be motivated by an inherent goal to serve mankind, or sometimes comes from a mamma and pappa desire for their babies to fulfill parental dreams.
A career in medicine in the past meant always having a job, financial stability, intellectual responsibility, and independent decision-making. Unfortunately, doctors don’t make medical decisions anymore. Business people do.
Job satisfaction is at an all time low; paperwork inundates every physician; education debt takes decades to pay off; job security no longer exists; doctor suicide rates are up; and they are now a commodity being used and manipulated for their medical degree to make money for business people who are in charge.
Mammas and pappas, your babies are under stress and not happy. They are forced to make business decisions instead of medical decisions, contrary to their moral and ethical beliefs and against the Hippocratic Oath.
Why put them through the demands of being a doctor?
Instead, let ‘em grow up to be cowboys or cowgirls and such.
Gene Uzawa Dorio, M.D.
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