Feelings about work experience

What is it exactly about your idea of Medicine that attracts you to it? What do you perceive being a doctor to be? Is it just that experience so far has clashed with those expectations, or is it that you're doing this because you feel you have no other choice but don't actually enjoy the practicalities?

Lots of medicine can be dull and repetitive - yes, there's more variety than a lot of jobs but for every exciting case there's probably a handful of fairly mundane ones. Not liking Radiology is probably fair enough - if you don't know any anatomy or anything and wanted to see patients, I can imagine it not being much fun. Not liking GP on the other hand...yes, it gets repetitive but you said you don't like to listen to people talking about their problems? That happens in almost any specialty!

Was this by any chance the work experience school made us arrange in year 10 (i think it was year 10), yours at least sounds slightly better than mine where I saw nothing medical at all during the week and just made beds and cups of tea and coffee

yeh. do you know me?!

last year I watched surgery, it was quality. if you can't get into work experience for surgery, like vascular surgery, do gastroenterology. you watch scopes and stuff that's nice.

for the record i've since worked in a nursing home and i'm impervious to catheters! and surgery. and bodily fluids. and deep bedsores

I perceive being a doctor as having a lot of responsibility yet using your knowledge in order to help people and make a tangible difference to their lives. Sorry, I probably worded that incorrectly, I meant that in the GP environment I didn't enjoy it because it all seemed a bit repetitive. However, when I saw consultants talk to patients during my Radiology work experience it was more enjoyable and I could see the difference they made by just listening to patients.