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You often cannot choose who your patients will be and what their background is. I always like to give the example of training or working in an inner-city hospital. The patients that arrive at the doorstep might be far from what you envisioned when you chose medicine as your career. You might find a patient with poor personal hygiene who is combative and rather abusive, verbally. This could be further complicated by a lack of ability for adequate history taking, making for diagnostic challenges. While this might not be a desirable situation for many people working in the medical field, there are just as many health-care professionals who prefer to work in this kind of environment. The level of satisfaction that can be gained from helping people in these deplorable situations can be immense.

You might also have strong religious beliefs and have a patient who lives a lifestyle that fundamentally conflicts with your personal beliefs, morals, and ideals. As a doctor, you cannot impose your own values on a patient. You have to be impartial when treating a patient. There are a few situations in which you might defer the treatment to a colleague if you feel uncomfortable with the situation at hand. Performing abortions is one such example. In my opinion, nobody should be forced to perform abortions, and conversely nobody should be denied a legal abortion because of a doctor’s personal beliefs.