It's not all about the money!

Moments like:

When you a see a beautiful smile on a innocent kid's face and try to figure out why she might be suffering form a life threatening disease.

When a close friend has a miscarriage because the hospital could not take proper care and provide with the right guidance.

or the friend who had to sit through the emergency for more than 12 hours while suffering through immense pain.

When you tell a person that you have chosen medicine as your future career, the first thing that they respond with is, "Oh that's wonderful, doctors make a lot of money". Honey if we were in it for money, we wouldn't spend more than 13-14 hours everyday in the hospital, spend day and night preparing to get into a medical school, and once we get there spend another 6-7 years trying to gain a degree, to do what? oh! make money. I can do that with my father's business in half the time and effort. Medicine is a noble profession, we save peoples lives. Now Im not saying that we are God, but at least we try to help. we dedicate all of our lives making other more healthy and livable. We sacrifice our quality time with family, give up our relationships so that other people can enjoy those luxuries.

I met a lady a few months back and we had quick two minute conversation where I realized what her value for our professions was. We were at a financial meeting and she, being one of the top business associate, bragged on about how great her business is. I did agree with most of the things she said, she was very encouraging, excited and enthusiastic. Then I told her that i am a premed student, she smiled asked me to join her business, said that it has more money in it, has more profit. To support her point she gave me an example she said, "I have a family doctor i go to for the past 10/11 years and 10 years ago i didn't have any money or anything. After joining the business I am so well-off but the doctor is at the same place he was 10 years ago."
Now here she was comparing, a persons 10/12 years of dedication to money. Yeah clearly she didn't see that, if it weren't for the doctor, she wouldn't be in the position she is to begin with.

Anyways all i wanted to say was that, we chose this profession because we enjoy medicine, we are ready to spend the rest of our lives in the hospital helping people.

Herez the summary: 4 years in college, 4 years in med school, 3+ residency, 2 or more fellowship, 10 years to pay off loans. We are almost 40 years old. We didn't choose medicine for the money!!!