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...long is this going to lay me up, doc...
...extremities," meaning many patients with foot pain, like chronic back patients, never get better, no matter what you do. So we treat it with respect. I have seen a stress fracture of the foot keep a middle-aged woman hobbling in pain for over a year. Every doc in my field has experience with schoolgirls whose mysterious foot and leg pains are relieved only by a doctor's note that gets them out of gym. On the other end of the unrelieved spectrum are the non-compliant adolescent patients who sneak the forbidden activities and never let the fracture heal...
...steel into someone's thigh bone with a (sterile) five pound maul - all in the name of good will toward man. Our patients generally get better and the uniquely orthopedic interaction of science and humanity makes for a great richness of experience in our everyday lives. Ask any doc - ortho is fun. And while not much of a relativist, I can imagine that docs in other specialties love their fields as well - though maybe not all ("ah, the romance of ... nephrology...
...Following in a parent's footsteps, knowing firsthand the unusual life of a doc and stoking the early fires of a developing superego with such high octane respect and responsibility that scarcely any other human endeavor seems worthy - this is the psychology that makes doctors' kids into doctors. There are, quite honestly, many in my field of surgery who will work for any salary - some would literally pay to do it. They can derive satisfaction from little else, their self-concept is utterly enmeshed in it and doctor's children or not, they will be doctors in the next generation...
...lifetime triumph of two seasons past, wouldn’t seem to appreciate it much, now, would they. You get Mets fans in my Kirkland House suite—two of them, in fact—staring at a potential World Series win on the 20th anniversary of Mookie, Doc, and Darryl. Sick bastards...