Mamas dont let your babies grow up to be doctors

[HouseofWool]

S loves to look through the "body book", aka, my A&P textbook.

[SoonerTexan]

Jen! Another budding radiologist

[Pollyanna]

Am I the only one that would be thrilled if our kids go the medicine route, lol?

Heidi, your kiddos will make awesome physicians, or whatever they choose to be!! And hyper speed is right!!!

[PrincessFiona]

Tara, I wouldn't mind. Andrew talks about it but he doesn't have the personality or social and organizational skills for it so I don't think it's an option. He just sees it as a good way to support a family/lifestyle. It's all he knows. I suppose he could be a radiologist. LOL.

Medicine is still a good way to earn a solid income (at least for now). Some specialties make it family-friendly enough that it is a viable option. Orthopedic surgery is not one of these specialties!!!

[ladymoreta]

Medicine is still a good way to earn a solid income (at least for now).

Yeah, I wonder if this is part of the reason a lot of doctors' kids continue to choose medicine. I grew up in a home with a household income of around $50,000 (a little more as I got older), so pretty much any income level would have been comfortable for me. I think it would be hard to choose a profession that makes significantly less than you were used to growing up.

[Auspicious]

Ryan wants to be a pathologist.

If we could freeze everything like it is today, I'd endorse it. I think it was about a year ago my husband and I had a conversation where he agreed with my assertion that he enjoyed his job enough that if everything could stay as it is, he'd happily work years past normal retirement age. But quickly pointed out, "Of course, there's no way to get it to stay the same." True--he's already working more now than he was when we had that conversation.

[mommax3]

Mamas dont let your babies grow up to be doctors

My oldest (sophomore in college) wants to go to medical school. Pretty sure he doesn't want to be an OB/Gyn, though. 😉 I think wanting to make a good salary is a factor for him, but he has always been very interested in medical stuff and has asked DH tons of questions over the years. He is taking EMT classes this semester...we'll see what he thinks of that.

[houseelf]

This is interesting because our family's path has created the opposite effect in my son. My oldest already lived through ten years of training. He has stated he wants more work life balance. Pretty sure he's going to do some sort of tech or coding.

[medpedspouse]

I think it is different for those in training now whose parents were physicians vs those in medicine now whose children want to go into medicine. Medicine was such a different beast as little as 10 years ago. Work/life balance (or lack thereof) not much has changed but making a "good living" compared to the amount of debt, loss of income while in training, poor compensation/reimbursement and loss of PPs, makes me discourage anyone that I care about. When they are persistent about following this path, I stress that the monetary return for their investment needs to be taken off the table. They need to do it for the love of medicine...but even that is changing. They need to love seeing their patients for 20 mins max, feeling rushed and frustrated that they do not have enough time or the patient can't get the help they need because of some bureaucratic reason and be thrilled to stay up into the wee hours of the night charting.

When we go on mission trips, all the physicians say they do it because they get to actually practice medicine. Interesting because they usually only have the bare minimum.

[JediMaster]

Could be worse-- they could not want to do anything at all


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