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Okay, so. Ragnarok. Tell me about that. Walk me through it.
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Lately I feel like everyone talks about OB like it’s this giant onerous tax on your time and energy as a Family Doc, but let me assure y'all, I saw four OB patients this afternoon and delivered a baby late last night/early this morning and I am feeling invigorated and remembering why I like my job today, moreso than I have in weeks.
I was able to enjoy my complicated af little old ladies because they were so different from my healthy young pregnant ladies, and be fully present to counsel the parent of a child about their child’s behavioral issues, and have enough emotional energy to get a middle-aged dude to the point where he realized he’s depressed and asked for help, and not get upset at the ridiculous paperwork I had to do, because I’d leapt out of bed at o’-dark-thirty this morning and gone in to help a lovely family welcome a new person into the world, and that privilege makes any paperwork seem minor in comparison.
I know and respect that’s not how other Family Docs feel, and I don’t knock the things that give other Family Docs balance and a sense of achievement - I listen to y'all who love sports med when you tell me about nailing that hip injection, I listen to y'all who nerd out about the fifty-zillion new diabetes drug classes that might be approved in the next ten years, I listen to y'all who love nursing home medicine talking about deprescribing and advanced directives and preventing falls, I listen to y'all who love procedures talk about getting certified to do colonoscopies or whatever.
I never tell med students or residents that stuff is too draining to pursue, or that they’ll never have work-life balance, or that they’ll leave the field in five years if they do it.
We all have things we enjoy within the field of Family Med. We all have special interests that make us happy and motivated and yeah, it’s often inconvenient, but it’s deeply worth it to the person doing it.
Don’t knock what keeps your colleagues happy and whole and motivated, even if you don’t understand why or personally find it annoying or draining. Be glad it exists, and that we work in a speciality where we can find and pursue those things while still maintaining lots of other things in our practice, so we don’t burn out and leave medicine in five years.
In the meantime, I’ll send my patients to y'all for hip injections and colonoscopies if you send me pregnant ones, deal?
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