Always it keeps striking me…what if I had become an engineer instead of a doctor??? There was a time I was almost sure about going for engineering in Computer Science…had always fancied carrying a folder on my shoulder and a drawing board in hand… But I swapped back to Medical…though given a chance still, I would love taking it as a course too…after MBBS ofcourse…
Imagining how it would be to attend an engineering college…I have almost all my best buddies doing it…even my cousins…not a single doctor in my family…have been hearing a lot from them about their institution and life…I just put myself sometimes into their shoes and let me wander in their campus…
We have these lectures to attend the whole day…at stretch sometimes…haven’t heard of an engineer doing so till date…perhaps that would be a relief…a heavenly feel…getting up late and just going for the practical classes…aha…awesome feeling…and after the practical sitting somewhere in the campus and chit-chatting rest of the time…
Practical classes…we have these ward postings as the practical sessions…learning different skills, asking for the symptoms, eliciting signs and knowing how to treat them is our aim…engees…well the major difference in both is that we play with live things and they with the inanimate objects…playing with circuits or may be with the computers…atleast then there won’t be that concern for the life of other human…
As about fancying about the folder and drawing board…I actually like it…that gave me a particular sense of going to the college…we don’t have them in medical colleges…and then the fashion statements the students in an engineering institute maintain is something to look upto…envy them all…we have to keep a low note on this prospect…
3rd year campus interviews and selections…getting great packages and after the degree comes in their hands…earning…just WOW!!! If their could’ve been something like this for medicos too…4 years of studying giving a big salary of 12 lakhs per annum…if do post graduation…2years more and this sum gets amplified 3-4 times…who won’t like that…
Yet I think I made a right decision…the feeling of treating a patient to health back…taking the blessing of all souls whom we heal…and moreover the prefix added to the name “Dr.” compensates it all for me…this prefix in first position had lured me to get in here…so what we earn a bit later…so what we have to take a lot efforts…but they are worth it I guess…
Engineering is too good in its own contemplation (I would like to go for it still…after MBBS but)…but becoming a doctor…operating or may be just medicating a person in pain to get his smile back is a heavenly feeling in its own accord…
KUDOS!!
