Originally Posted by
The Doc
I am a trauma and specialist knee surgeon.
I love my job 85% of the time.
I take people out of pain and I put their broken bones back under the skin and stitch them up.
I love operating, it's a huge buzz and massively satisfying to do something creative and technical with my hands. No mouths, no bums, no bad smells in orthopaedics.
I make good money, I have total, and I mean total job security. All of my school mates went from Cambridge Uni into "the city" and make more money than me and most of them hate their jobs or are utterly bored.
Medicine is a wonderful career, with a slow start and amazing possibilities and career opportunities for anyone with an IQ of 120 to 200.
The NHS is, however, very broken.
I've just finished two operations this morning, one on the femur with a huge plate and screws, the other on a mangled fingertip when a car fell off the jack onto it. Both equally rewarding for everyone.
If I won £186 million on the Euro lottery, I'd still work as a surgeon in the Uk, just on better timetables for me.
Like, 10 days a month, flying in from Gstaad/Corfu/Paris/Singapore.
:)