A question addressing all the doctors and doctors ......
Which one are you/would you rather be ? Would either one come to conclusion as to who is more of the useful kind in the real world ?
(Whether you are the one in the white coat sticking a thermometer under someone's tongue or the one in the white coat pippetting all night long, it doesn't matter... we are all lab rats and we would probably remain so for the rest of our lives inspite of everything that i have just jotted down ....)
You are completely stressed out and exhausted. You hardly got any sleep last night ...again ! Inspite of working harder with not much of a financial gain as expected and more personal compromises, the senior authorities always seem to be dissatisfied. Hardly any sympathy from the public and their demands only seem to be increasing everyday. The services no longer receive the deserved acknowledgement and if anything the public only seem to be less grateful day by day. Any amount of experience still doesnt seem to be good enough and government's fidilities with the funding and buying of equipments only leaves you more frustrated. The numerous advanced degrees and accolades hanging on the wall in your dingy office are merely covering up that hole in the wall you made when you were frustrated which only left you with swollen knuckles and not a thing changed . The external rewards and appreciation, autonomy and job security are that of the past. Peer pressure, highly criticizing authorities, the precarious condition of relationship with your spouse/parter due to lack of devoting enough time to him/her, being at the mercy of another collaborating specialist who drives you crazy with his condesceding attitude, when you try to sleep your brain starts churning again thinking 'when will i ever settle down in a permanant job and breathe properly again' ..... does this briefly sum up your life at the moment ?
What keeps you going on ?? - Perhaps your dedication to your field / interesting work /passion for whatever it is that you are doing eventhough you are cursing yourself day in and day out for choosing this in the first place / making a difference however big/small in the society and seeing that happen ???
Okay !! If you have had the patience to read this till the end, then you are probably one of the doctors ......
So that brings me back to the same question - which one are you/would you rather be and who would you say is more of the useful kind for the society ?
4 comments:
Expecting something in return does not resemble the true nature of anyone who does real service. According to me both doctor (the one who spends some time with nurses)/doctor (the one who don’t have that opportunity) both are doing service in one way or the other. Who does better depends on what others expect out of them. So the question does not make any sense to me as you cannot make direct comparison between both the doctors.
Hi!
First of all, my question was not about who is out doing whom in the service they do or the credibility of their service. I was asking whose service is perceived as more 'useful' in the real world.
In other words, if you have the two options in front of you - which road would you rather take and why?
To answer your question more precisely I would like to revise the title as creators vs. messengers. No one exactly knows who the creator is, but everyone remembers the messengers and they even worship them. Same way life saving doctors will obviously appear to be more important for a common man. As the majority crowd comes under common man, people who do science might not appear to be important for those so called common man. But you should always remember the underlying reality if researchers don’t have that innovation and creativity who spends most of his/her time in a four walled room presumably called as laboratory, the messengers would not have anything to say to the real world. I would rather prefer being a creator than being a messenger.
Hi
Very well put ! I couldnt have agreed more with you. As you say the messengers 'appear' more important to the common man....but then again, without creators there would be no messengers. So, it is more like the chick and the egg story.
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