The physician occupation is one of the oldest occupations in the world. Either it was called healer, witch-doctor, barber doctor, shaman healer, the medic always was and will be an important figure in the society life and one of the most respected figures in the community. You can read and imagine what it takes and means to be a doctor by throwing a mere glimpse at the Hippocratic Oath (an oath historically taken by doctors swearing to practice medicine ethically, written by Hippocrates, often regarded as being the father of western medicine).
But what does being a physician actually mean?
If we were to search a definition of the word "doctor" we will find its roots somewhere in Ancient Greece. Archiatros or archiater, as it became after latinization, named persons who were considered the main healers or chief "physicians", the ones whose main duty was prevention, diagnosis, and therapy of the main diseases and accidents known up until then. The physician's career starts with medical college and continues with many steps that give him the title of licensed physician.
I personally believe that the "doctor occupation" begins earlier in time than the actual moment of medical college graduation: it begins way back in childhood when you respond to everyone's curiosities with "I want to become a doctor". On the long way of achieving this statute, you are not on one isolated occasion ready to give up everything, and I personally believe that in those actual moments real medics are distinguished from the rest.
These steps imply preparing for college, when you actually know that you will have to prepare and learn for the rest of your life, this means the first hours in the anatomy class, the first day at the morgue, the first practical hours in the hospital, the first long examination sessions at disciplines that seem impossible, the residency test, the internship. All these, combined together can actually conclude that some have "the talent to become a doctor" running through their veins, while others try to gain it through stubbornly learning and huge willpower.
The specialist is the final outcome. Medicine presumes many disciplines, and that is why the medic can choose from a wide range of specialty training, becoming therefore specialist in that discipline, such as neurology, cardiology, endocrinology, radiology and so on. "Becoming a specialist" means relentless work that has to be done for the rest of your life so you can keep up with the continuously evolving medicine.
The biggest challenge is becoming a surgeon, but achieving this assumes having that "unique born thing", that we name "the call" or "born spirit of the surgeon". For me the main challenge is becoming a radiology specialist and being very good at it. That is the reason why you should choose carefully that specialty that does not give you the monotonous and boring work sensation, but the fulfilling one, which brings you satisfaction, fits you like a glove, because you will practice this, hopefully, for the rest of your medical career.
Alex Dumitru M.D is a first year radiology fellow that blogs at Medical Tips.
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