u/Duck-qwack_4624

Is there even a Medicine that exists beyond the clinical doors? Outside of the wards,OTs and the OPDs? I have been asking the same question to myself from a very long time. My peers tell me how they find their thrill in an aortic aneurysm repair they last saw Dr. X perform on a man which lasted for more than 7 hours with moments of distress when the patient's vitals suddenly started dropping. I find that cool as well but I never found any thrill in it. I never found myself emotionally moved by them the way other people did. For me medicine existed in stories, ethics, writing, grief, research and strange responsibility of being allowed into someone’s most vulnerable moments.