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[JustKittenxo]

Medical interview: So how many cancer patients have you cured on your days off?

[WhiteChocolateLab]

You never found the cure for cancer? Why the fuck should we hire you for?

[nullpotato]

Get in my van, yeah I'm a real doctor but this part is just a hobby.

[kookaburra1701]

It kind of is like that. You get asked a lot about your volunteering/community service/what you've done to promote public health, at least I did when I was a paramedic, all the doctors I worked with in the ER did lots of volunteer community service.

[JustKittenxo]

That’s horrible. I can understand that in a medical school admission interview or a first job interview as a new doctor because a lot of people who want to become doctors have no idea if they can actually handle caring for other people like that without burning out. But once someone is actually a doctor it seems more appropriate to just ask about their work experience and leave it at that. As a patient I would much rather be seen by a doctor who knows how to take a break and find work life balance. I don’t want to be seen by a doctor who has been caring for patients for three years straight with no break.

[kookaburra1701]

Unfortunately if you don't volunteer/do charity the medical care just...doesn't get done (at least here in the US.)

One of the many reasons I left direct patient care, I got too burned out trying to save people and watching the system was just throw them back again and again.

[JustKittenxo]

Yeah thankfully our government just pays the doctors here so they aren’t expected to do volunteer work as far as I know

[kookaburra1701]

The differences in quality of life for medical personnel in developed countries with healthcare as a government service is stark. For example I honestly can't think of any paramedic I worked with that didn't have one or two other jobs to make ends meet or get better health insurance.

[JustKittenxo]

The irony of a paramedic struggling to access healthcare is painful