Variety, they say, is the spice / beauty of life and I am one of the persons who not only constantly try to make his life spicy but then, my occupation has also added it's own unique spices in addition, hehehe.
One good thing about Freedom is that when utilized properly will help evolve the better ways of doing a particular thing you have been doing. Evolutions never came from repeatedly doing the same thing over and over again, it rather came from sprinkling creativity into established routines.
In my workplace working as a medical doctor, it is both rigid and flexible in the same time, hehe.
Rigid in the sense that there are fixed routines you must follow once a patient presents to the clinic such as taking the medical history, conducting the physical examination, sending for investigation and then properly managing the patient.
The rigid nature of this work is that you should always bear the interest of the patient in mind and at all times gear towards what you will do to better the state of the patient, medically and otherwise.
Yet, the flexibility aspects of this job is what makes it super wonderful and something to wake up everyday wanting to go back.
In performing the rigid aspects of medicines too, you get to be flexible... What do I mean?
It is true that for every patient who comes in to the clinic must get her medical history taken and others but then the flexibility comes while doing all of them.
Every patient presents differently and the symptoms Mr. A presented with will be different from the symptoms Mr. B will be presenting with making the ways you will take the histories differently and this difference applied to almost if not all the patients... No two patients ever have same history; this dynamism brings variety to the seemingly routine processes.
The flexibility of medicine comes again in the various paths it offers you... Medicine doesn't restrict you automatically to the clinic duties, you can still go work with NGOs, conducting research, lecturing jobs, oil companies, sports medicine, private practices and many other fields as your interest leads you where you seems fit to get the work-life balance you desire.
Sure, if it gets more flexible than it is, it's a good thing because truth be told, brain drain and patient overload is hitting us in a special way and the ideal working condition of not more than 50 patients to a doctor has become impossible, hence, further stretching the available doctors in the country.
More Flexible Schedule:
More flexible schedule will enable the doctors engage in various recreational activities and extracurricular activities which will probably fetch them more money that they won't have to depend wholly on their salary, who knows, might also reduce the number of strike actions doctors go into every year.
Mental health:
It is no news stress is a great trigger for many mental issues. Creating a more flexible schedule invariably means reducing the stress load and then improving the mental health of doctors.
On a personal note, I love the flexibility of my field as it is, I am not really stucked with a particular case as there are thousands and one sickness and even the ones yet to be discovered and ones yet to come; these keep the profession exciting.
Thanks for reading and have a nice day 👍
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I understand the medical line can be very demanding and over expectant of this in the field, I hope the system understands this and make schedule more flexible for you guys.
But then hopefully you yourself can find a way to manage the remaining time for rejuvenating and family time.
Exactly! We won't wait for them to get that for us because truth remains that when you die working, they will just have a minute silence for you and life moves on 😂😂
Flexibility can be achieved as it lies with individuals despite the demands of work. I love the part of mental health consideration aswell because it is very important.
Thanks for sharing this insightful write-up with us. 👏
Exactly my bro... Because when you're not mentally stable, treating someone else even becomes a problem
Very true 💯👌
Being a medical doctor is no joke. You have to be prepared for it all round all else you’d find yourself giving up.
I don’t think it can be adjusted completely, especially in a country like ours and that’s why you need more than the brain to do the job. You have to have a very strong passion for it.
That's true but believe me, the workload is really really getting out of hand and becoming unbearable.
Well,it's just about doing the much you can and ghosting others 💀
Lol, ghoster 😂
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