Me? A Doctor?

I have always thought that becoming a doctor is way out of my league.  I have never been much of a student and I always assumed that all doctors are really smart and i would never be able to get through medical school.  Today my view of doctors and the medical world drastically changed.

I have met many many doctors in my life.  Some doctors are really nice and some doctors have no idea that there is such a concept of "nice."  To tell you the truth, that doesn't really bother me. Obviously i prefer seeing a doctor who is nice and  has good manners, but i would much rather see a doctor that has average intelligence, common decencey, and knows what he is doing.

Today i met a doctor that convinced me that i could become a doctor one day too.  Not only is this guy a doctor, he is the head of a department in the best cancer hospital in the world.  He was a pretty nice guy, but that's about it.  He couldn't read my chart.  He couldn't remember what his nurse told him about me 5 minutes prior to seeing me.

At the end of the day, he did solve my problem though, he wrote me more prescriptions for pain killers.  He destroyed any hope my parents had for me being pain free for the rest of my life.  He told my parents and i that the only way to treat my pain is with pain killers, and nothing else will work.  He didn't even mention physical therapy,  acupuncture, anything...

I can be an idiot, write prescriptions, and charge the insurance company $300 every time someone walks into my room. . . who needs medical school. . .?

The scary thing is, these doctors are supposed to be the best in their field . . .