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Saturday, 22 December 2012
A Medico is as human as an Engineer, Arts or a Commerce graduate is and no less. Medical professionals are not aloof to what many perceive as being unusual to those hailing from the medical field. Four and half year of study and one year of rigorous internship training are required to get the coveted degree, entry into which is obtained after hardships faced through competitive entrance tests just as any.
The definition of health has been described in great detail in the Medical texts. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines Health as a “state of complete physical, mental, and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” Fortunately, this definition remains unchanged till now and unfortunately, several minds in our developing society have still not been able to tune in. People still view issues relating to ones’ mind as being taboo and assume medicos are and should be beyond blues.
The career path chosen might define an individual’s personality and vice versa. Heavens will not fall & neither will sun rise in the west, if one chooses one’s profession based on one’s personality tone. One does not need to oblige others by threading their suggested career lane, holds good even if they are our own men. There are good ones’ whose advises are immersed in good intentions, and there are few others who dare bother thee, to satiate their cruel selfish desires of bothering others. “Look beyond thy degree, and you shall see what glory you always wanted to achieve!”
As I was conversing with a friend of mine, from the other side a point was raised that internship is the penultimate step before being bestowed with the degree. Of course, yes! Had the first four years included more than mugging theory and spending time in the practical hall just for the sake of exams, it would have been more useful in determining if one is actually more capable- mentally, physically and emotionally of continuing their journey of mastering the baby steps of Medicine. It is only after gruelling months of internship, does one realize that this might not be their cup of tea. One might have continued the course out of sheer external force or internal feelings of guilt of discontinuing the course having won it so hard. Hope one knew how to figure that out during the course itself. Pressure to keep one-self going under such a circumstance is extremely gruelling. Pressure might not necessarily initiate from family or peers, one’s own expectation and fear might be powerful enough to act as a nidus. The burden of continuing something out of the fear of letting others down, most importantly letting one’s own self down is nerve wracking. If one feels this is not the right thing for them, nothing wrong in taking a step back to reconsider their decision of continuing, I bet this in turn would save them time and energy because the wastage is not worthy at all. Not all types of personalities can handle the pressure that a medical field demands.
Personality is not something that can be transformed overnight and might not even change irrespective of the person’s insight and willingness to bring a change in it. Persona is an admixture of innate qualities moulded by external factors. Having an insight into it but being unable to change it to suite a career is equally worse to not being aware of the incompatibility. I feel it is better to choose one’s profession wisely as per what their personality can take and not merely go by what others have to say or what one’s heart said at a retrospective point of time. Leading a good life is what one wants and that can be achieved by mentally not succumbing to outside pressures and dubious discouraging inner voices. Hopefully irrespective of the degrees acquired, the present day society is trying to embrace the diversion taken for a future settlement. I wish this continues, and so does the zeal to excel in what so ever line of work one takes; because ambition is big, but definitely not more valuable than life. © Somya Mullapudi
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