This Wonderful World of Moonlighting
July 5, 2008
hyagr8
I’ve been moonlighting for over 8 months now. For the most part, it’s been great. The pay is good, the patients are 80% of the time non-toxic, the Atending physicians are most of the time ok (some are really MD’s from hell who came down here on earth to make my life miserable 
) and I get along with most of the people i work with.
It’s been smooth sailing majority of the time that I don’t want to leave this kind of life. I don’t want to become a lowly 1st year resident in some bigtime hospital where they treat you like dirt. I don’t want to go back to that life of being always on the edge, being blamed for everything by the senior residents, sleepless forever, underpaid and overworked.I want to just continue being like this: working in the hospital in my hometown, living in my home, sleeping on my bed, being able to attend special occasions with my family and just be there with my family. (sigh)
But I know that I can’t be forever moonligthing. Sooner or later I’ll be bored and i’ll want to become a specialist in my chosen field. So i guess, i’ll just have to gird my loins and just do it.
Maybe it’s just the fatigue that’s talking. I just spent 8 hours assisting in 2 major operations today and I’m duty 24 hours tomorrow. So maybe i’ll change my mind tomorrow.I’ll just think hard about those attending physicians from hell.I can imagine demons wearing stetoscopes or maybe fire-breathing dragons in a white coat. I’ll just continue thinking this and maybe by next week, I can’t wait for residency training .hehe:-)
Entry Filed under: my thoughts
1 Comment Add your own
Leave a Comment
Some HTML allowed:
<a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>
Subscribe to comments via RSS Feed
1. maricris racho | November 6, 2008 at 3:18 am
hi! dock
yes, correct jud ka sa imo mga gpa molung
no place like home,,but we need to go out of our shell for professional growth,self satisfaction..etc..i cnt think wat else…hehe…
mingaw nako bxu dock..sometimes i think y am here,,,but i think am too selfish if i should thnk that way… i have kids to feed huhuhu…but part of it i enjoyed … sa pg laag2 dire sa trully asia
see you soon dock.!
macry