why I do it
Posted By: Janine on 2007-06-11
In Reply to: If you are complaining of low pay, why?? - Pattie
I love to learn. I love the field of Medicine. Medicine is always evolving. I don't feel myself stagnating here as I have in other jobs where I was paid much, much more to know and do much, much less. I feel that MTing gives me more opportunities to learn a wider spectrum of specialties than being a nurse would, though I do miss hands-on care.
I love doing 26 specialties and not knowing which one I will get next. I love doing consultations and playing "what's the problem" and getting it right before the physician says it. I love being in the OR suite in my imagination and watching the surgeries, especially when they encounter an unexpected problem. I get to work "all the floors" in a manner of speaking by doing transcription. I like being the fly on the wall. I love the challenge of it all.
I take pride in all I learn. I have shelves of books and CDs on the different specialties, watch surgeries online, read all I can. A good, long, thorough consultation is like time spent in the classroom again. And when I can take that knowledge and put it all together to do a report that is about a real person with a real problem, I feel pride in it all. I feel very much like I am contributing to each person's healthcare by making sure their medical record makes sense and flagging the errors. I've been told we are the patient's "safety net" and that is truly how I feel, and I like the feeling.
I feel a sense of accomplishment in having worked so hard to learn what I have and the thought that there is still so much more to learn excites me. But it IS getting to the point where I am seriously beginning to think this is just not practical in the long run, given the wages it seems many of us are making at the sacrifice of our social/family life and sometimes mental and physical wellbeing and the uncertainty of this profession's future for us, not to mention the unjust treatment by many companies. It's a tough call that I keep trying to put off making.
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