Doctors Licensed to Kill

Being a clinician is one of my biggest dreams in life. Since I was a child, I have been dreaming of becoming a clinician. Now that I'm enrolled in medical school, I now have the feeling that my out of the blue dream is slowly materializing.

Since I entered med school, I've been bombarded with not only the biggest deals of memorizing illnesses and their treatments but more of the pressure of the standards provided by myself and by the society. In med school, everyone's expected to be intelligent, a person who has the capability of reasoning. Also, if you enter med school, you'd totally be considering that you're a nerd. You'd be losing many of your friends. Why? because you'd be spending much more time being with your books than being with your friends. You see, many of the clinicians I know lost many of their friends that they've been with when they were still in pre med (college course). That isn't unusual as what one of my profs would say.

When you enroll yourself in med school, one of the first questions you would be able to read in an application form is your financial capability of paying its fees. Weird as it may sound, but yes, it has been written a long time ago that being a med student has the prerequisite of you being part of the elite society. So few are scholars and many of these scholars or grantees of scholarships are also rich. Well, we can't do something about this. It has been given and I think, this would pursue until we die.

The bright side in being a medical student is when you now learn so much that you are capable of diagnosing and curing illnesses. Once you become a doctor, you would then have the license to kill. Bad as it may sound, in reality, doctors are the only people who can control a person's life legally. If he wants you dead, he'll kill you. He has the power to end your life without you knowing. The beauty in that is it keeps the doctors on their toes in being careful and being ethical in treating their patients. In addition, a doctor's ability to influence others is outrageous. People view doctors like gods. Who wouldn't want to be saved by these gods? Lastly, being a doctor gives you the high position of continuously being elite. These reasons are more often selfish in nature. Well, many doctors think this way.

On the flip side of the coin, doctors do have the responsibility to first and foremost love people. They have the duty to make their patients' lives easier. They are the forerunners of lives. They are men who play gods but still, they are men who do err.

Clinicians, physicians, doctors, whatever you call them are part of our society. They are just around. I still do want to be doctor. No single word can describe a doctor especially with the different view points of these doctors. Oh well, to hell with all these. I still want to be a doctor.