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You have always wanted to be physician because doctors are apparently so well respected. You cannot wait until the day you can tell everyone you are a medical student and later a fully qualified medical doctor, maybe even a brain surgeon! These superficial concepts far outweigh your inherent desire to help people. Actually you have a long-standing passion for flying and wish to become a pilot one day, even if it means doing it in your spare time when you are not in the medical office.

You eventually get to display that stethoscope in your pocket and around your neck every chance you get. Somehow you wonder how that novelty of the stethoscope being visible at all times could ever wear off. Well something happened, because after a few years in medical school, the joy of showing off the stethoscope has waned. This is because the motives and primary reasons for following a career in medicine were very wrong.

Another factor could be somehow feeling special when you are paged, or called, to the emergency department at the hospital. This makes you feel especially important and special while amongst other people, or at some social event. The novelty of been called away from the office, home, a family function, or a social event wears off very quickly. People in this situation often wonder how on earth they ever got themselves into this in the first place.

If the reasons for choosing medicine were honest and true to yourself, when things get tough, the stress will be that much easier to deal with as you will hopefully really enjoy what you are doing. No job is void of stress, and all careers have less desirable portions. What is important is that you enjoy more aspects of your job than you dislike.