How do you know if being a doctor is your right career path?
If you enjoy it, this is it.If you feel excited each day about the prospect of being able to do your work again, this is it.If you hate weekends and days off, this is it.If you love Mondays, this is it.If you fear the prospect of not being able to do your work, this is it.If you hate the prospect of retiring, this is it.If you would do it even if no one would pay you for it, this is it.Which means you can’t know it in advance.You can’t figure it out sitting on your parents’ couch and debating with them (or in a cafe with your friends, or during a family gathering with your uncles and aunts) as most young adults do.-Part of it appeared in my previous answer Lukasz Laniecki's answer to How do I figure out what I want to be when I "grow up"?
We have the right to have an attorney, but not to a doctor. Can you explain why that is?
The Sixth Amendment readsIn all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.The rule of law in republican government demands that no one shall be deprived of liberty without all due safeguards for his or her rights. It was not until 1932, however, that the Supreme Court ruled that federal courts in capital (death penalty) cases must provide an attorney for those accused who cannot afford one. In 1938, that protection was extended to all federal cases.Beginning in the 1960s, the Supreme Court began applying the same standard to state courts. Why did our right to counsel grow only after a century and a half to include the right to have an attorney provided at public expense? Several reasons:A growing lack of prosecutorial fairnessGrowing complexity of law, legal precedents and legal procedures to the point that self-representation greatly disadvantaged defendantsThe number of costly cases overturned on review for glaring unfairness at the trial level when counsel was absentA real desire for fairness in court proceduresPlenty of adverse publicity as newspapers and magazine played up miscarriages of justice, especially owing to lawyer tricksAnd don’t forget that lawyers will always support full employment for lawyersIn short, the courts are more than willing to require our money be spent in order to keep their processes tidy and criticism-free. As cynical as the bulk of that list is, fair-minded people do not wish others to be disadvantaged owing to mere circumstance. In exactly the same way county hospitals and all emergency rooms provide cost-free care to the indigent throughout the United States.
Are doctors always right about the height?
Doctors are usually pretty darned close. They can tell by your parents' heights and by your growth since you were born. It's unlikely they will be off by 3". My son's doctor predicted 6'6" for him. He ended up 6'5". When he was 13 he was 6'0".
Optometry: OD and OS - my right or doctor's right?
Hi guys, I am confused by the OD and OS in my contact lens prescription. I already know OS means right eye, but does it mean my right eye from my own perspective or from the doctor's? My right or their right? Thanks for your help.
Is this right? I was 15 minutes late to my doctors appointment, and they told me I had to reschedule?
I had an obgyn appointment and I was 15 miinutes late. When I got there, the woman at the desk told me that most likely I wasn't gonna be seen that day, so she went back to ask, and then told me I had to reschedule. I still didn't understand why the doctor couldn't see me that day...there's been times when I was 10 minutes late to some doctors appt and they didn't mind, I was still seen that day...
Is it right for a new family doctor to touch your penis?
A new doctor would normally conduct a full physical on a new patient in order to understand health issues and to acquire a full spectrum of the patient's condition. If the doctor didn't conduct a physical, I'd be concerned, because this would be sloppy or inadequate medical care. A physical involves being naked and the doctor palpates the testicles to check for lumps which could indicate testicular cancer. An older male (40 to 50+) would have a prostate exam. Doctors are aware of the apprehension that many boys and men have when appearing naked before them: concern about a possible erection, for example, but they are professionals who are trained in and accustomed to human frailties. If you do have an erection during an exam, it's not a big deal (no pun intended.) So be glad that you have a new doctor who is thorough and efficient. They must also conduct your health assessment "from scratch", so this initial physical establishes your charting with health conditions recorded. It helps to get your chart from your prior doctor. And women and girls must undergo a much more invasive procedure than males in their physical exams, so you are fortunate that way.
How do I know if becoming a doctor is the right choice for me?
From past experiences we know that those wanting to become docs for idealistic purposes only, and those who do so to make lots of money, both do less well than those who want to enter medicine because of a healthy combination of both.Your arguments why you’d want to become a doc are far too undefined, you sound like a handout from a medical faculty trying to interest young high school graduates to join them. You might have read too much of those.Being a doc is totally unlike what is seen in “medical” tv shows, it is hard work, mainly mind killing routine, always far to much to do in far too little time, it isn’t a job like any other job, but more like a vocation, inserting itself into everything in your life, being the greater part of who you will become, your private life will suffer, your spouse might too. Still want to become a doc? Be my guest!In the coming years these developments will influence the future of any doc: -loss of income, -=loss of social standing, -loss of professional authonomy, -and in The Netherlands where I life, again (it has been in some previous periods from the seventies onwards) the prosspect of joblessness: at present 570 docs (on a population of 17 million) are out of work, mostly untrained junior docs, but also some 100+ highly trained medical specialists! Our MD PhD daughter after spending 12 years in medicine has decided to forsake medicine altogether since in the specialty she would like to do no openings will be available in the coming 10 years, in the process losing her license to practice on January 1st 2018, she now is an Information Analyst bridging the gap between informatics and medicine. This was her presentation during the 2016 Dutch PHP conference this year which was very well received From Doctor to Coder: A Whole New World?
Are the doctor's predictions usually right about your height?
There's a reason why the tables pediatricians use are pretty accurate and it's because they have done research for years comparing the height children had of a specific region and their height as adults. It would also make sense that the pediatrician guessed your height when he looked at your siblings and parents. If your dad is over 6 feet tall, you have a higher genetic probability to be hig height or even taller. You can measure your remaining growth bones on an x-ray as a teenager. They did that to me when i was 12 because I was unusually short even for my genetics (but got a late growth spurt because I started to go to the gym obsessively when I was 15), and from the x-rays, the pediatrician guessed I still had another 5 years where I could continue growing. They did the same test on my older sister and correctly guessed that she only had 2 years left at the most. I ended up being slightly taller than her.