Your favorite part of your current job might well be receiving your salary at the end of each month but that's definitely not going to make for a good answer! What are the other reasons the you like your job as a member of health professinal team?
Dear Nader.
I simply l o v e my job.
How else would I cope with such physical strain, bad payment, so much psychologic stress and always having to be considered handy, day or night, as an obligation ?
How many more deffects does the Medical Profession have, in comparison to a 9-5 conventional job?
You imediately fall in love with the Medical World, as soon as you start studying and practicing. It pays itself through the fact that it is not a job. It is a mission. A lifetime mission, that implies devotion, emotional investment,and unconditional altruism, that builds strong self-esteem, even if we sometimes feel confused and overwhelmed by poor results.
PS - As I was answering you, with my own particular insight of the question, I couldn't resist thinking of the great Maimonides, who best described the vicissitudes and perfection of the Medical Profession to his students...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3678808/
Still looking for Maimonides's Oath for the Medical profession, but it is not easy to find... (It says it all...)
The Oath of the Healer by Louis Weinstein
In the eyes of God and in the presence of my fellow students and teachers, I at this most solemn time in my life do freely take this Oath, whereby I shall pledge to myself and all others the manner in which I shall live the rest of my days.
I shall be ever grateful to my teachers who have planted the seeds of knowledge, which I shall nurture forever. I thank them for allowing me to see the importance of learning and realize that lifelong study is critically important to becoming a Healer.
I realize that on this day, I become a physician for all eternity. I shall strive to be a person of good will, high moral character, and impeccable conduct. I shall learn to love my fellow man as much as I have learned to love the art of healing.
I shall always act in the best interest of my patient and shall never allow personal reward to impact on my judgment. I shall always have the highest respect for human life and remember that it is wrong to terminate life in certain circumstances, permissible in some, and an act of supreme love in others. I shall never promise a cure, as only death is certain, and I shall understand that preserving health is as important as treating disease. When a patient for whom I have been caring dies, I shall have the strength to allow him or her to die with dignity and in peace.
I shall have as a major focus in my life the promoting of a better world in which to live. I shall strive to take a comprehensive approach to understanding all aspects of life. To become the Healer I wish to be, I must expand my thinking and practice from a system of episodic care to one of a preventive approach to the problems of mankind, including the social ills of malnutrition and poverty that plague the world in which we live.
I am not a God and I cannot perform miracles. I am simply a person who has been given the rights and responsibilities to be a Healer. I pledge to myself and all who can hear me that this is what I shall become.
http://www.susqneuro.com/publications/oaths/#The Physician's Oath and Prayer of Maimonides
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