I know/have known - enough folks in the field ranging from those who wash the instruments, to scrub techs, to IM docs, to specialty docs.
On the first part of what you said. You MUST DEFINE INTELLIGENCE...! Cause it's more like "ANYONE WHO CAN MEMORIZE A BOOK"..... Which is NOT a good thing and especially when patients tend to view docs as "demigods" and falsely.
Which brings to YES- They are folks JUST LIKE you and me...! But further, their problems are ten fold. Ranging from severe drug abuse problems industry-wide, to legal, to sociopolitical pressures, to just plain old PROMISCUITY PROBLEMS (
when everyone always trying to get in the pants of folks with power - man or woman). And ESPECIALLY HOSPITALS are just like filthy Roman Bath Houses behind the scenes... Got to have something to do with INTEREST or COMFORT with the Human Body (
due to either inherent exposure or whatever underlying motive drives a person to be in that field - But NO ONE in those places is SHY...)
1. So Imagine you pay a SHIT PILE of TAXES (
It seems like I recall the 275K mark being the TAX NIGHTMARE POINT..).
2. Every woman around you wants to go on a date (
and you cant trust ANYONE's motive due to $$$).
3. The sweet hot little nurse that convince you to stick it in her (
she was so sweet and made it sound like innocent fun - Besides how's a guy gonna say no to some cock-starved hotty down on her knees trying to rip your cock our of your pants) IS NOW the anti-christ threaten to call you wife every day while you promise you will leave that mean old thing at home for her every day again.
4. 20 of you current patients are dying, or have NASTY terminal conditions for which you dare not speak to them the gory detail. While their family cries looking for psychological support, and counting on YOU to help their loved one.
5. Another person calls out of the blue to threaten your life for God knows what.
6. Drug seeking idiots are making appointments pretending/playing games, begging, demanding drugs for recreational use while they pretend otherwise.
7. You have to make ANOTHER fucking call to BC/BS to convey a procedure auth on a script, treatment, or surgery.
8. While the managing partners are looking over your files to make sure you are operating within "practice protocol".
9. And you sit there starting to wonder WHAT you are doing as you get so confused you dont even know if you should treat a person a certain way, the RIGHT WAY, because of all this.
10. Lets not forget the hours, and all this to pay your FIRST WIFE
absurd amounts of alimony, and when SHE was the one who cheated on YOU first.. 11. So you net no more than a high end auto mechanic, and dont have the time to spend it if you got ANY of it.
12. All along the stress is EATING YOUR LUNCH..
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NOT that Crisler falls in this general category necessarily, but he is a guy like you and me)
NO ONE should judge a relationship between a man and his wife. We all know the game. We are all the same and two always tangle. The bottom line is SHE is the one fucking with him now, she should NOT be pressing those charges and she did the dance. SHE pressed the buttons. SHE KNEW the result. SHE IS STABBING HIS BACK. Woman's scorn and all. He probably chose poorly, else he would not have the issue. Clearly she does not love him, else... ... ... She married him knowing who he was/is... I mean really, she did something equally deserving obviously..! Why the fuck would a man be fighting with his wife OTHERWISE.. !
And a DV Charge is NO JOKE in MANY STATES these days. You cant ever own a gun if convicted of that charge where I live...
I acknowledge YOU are NOT one of the one's judging...
Anyone with average intelligence and a good work ethic can become a physician....maybe not the best physician but a physician none the less. With that in mind they come with ALL the same baggage from childhood that everyone has. They come with all the same mental/emotional/psychological issues that everyone does. Why would anyone wonder why they deal with all the same shit other people deal with too?
