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Originally Posted by Unregistered
hi all.. any doctors or people in healthcare here? seeking advice about working in healthcare / hospital setting. i am considering to switch careers and pursue studies in Allied Health.
what are ur thoughts or emotions that come to ur mind while working in healthcare facing people who have taken ill?
background:
so i was a sickly child until i turned 18 when i decided to stop falling sick. because of all this meds and doctor visits and my desire to not fall ill again, i try my best to dissociate myself with illness and being ill. i visited an icu not long ago and i felt really really depressed
but the motivation comes from wanting to be of some use to the society and to other people in my lifetime.
so i wonder whats the train of thought for people who have been in healthcare for long.
thank you~
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If you read all the posts before this, you will notice a lot of jaded and overworked individuals.
Of course there is some sort of publishing bias here because those who truly enjoy their work prolly won’t be posting about it on a forum.
Healthcare (esp public healthcare) can be especially draining.
You will have good and appreciate patients, and you will have plain idiots who think you owe them the world when they are paying peanuts and you are earning peanuts.
And then of course you will have plain sociopaths who are just demanding, illogical and unreasonable. You might see decent patients all day and all you need is one sociopath to ruin your day.
At the end of the day this is a service industry. People expect to be served.
You do the work one patient at a time.
What do you mean you got depressed by going to the ICU?
Because you can’t deal with sickness or what?
Do make sure you work out all your inner fears, turmoil etc before you start work.
See a psychologist / counselor if you need to.
If you aren’t ready for the work you might crash and burn early.
What area of allied health are you studying?
Generally for physio OT you can move on to private sector where you can treat relatively well (physically and financially well off) patients.
Sportsmen, athletes, work injuries. Generally patients who are not “sick” like in the acute hospitals.