BrittneyNicole Offline

Crazy, Yeah I like surgery in general. I love life and death and I need the excitement and the adreniline of it. I'm good underpressure and never stress out. Anyway I must sleep have work in 3 hours, but my sleep pattern is all messed. Had stupid work hours yesterday... 6 am start time.... WOOT WOOT.

Only bad thing about being a Doctor, and it's not what the medical drama's make out to be in the on call room. In all the night shifts I've worked I've never once had sleep uninterupted.

Trauma Surgeon, although its very hard to get into in the UK and you have to become a consultant first and then be sent on training for that.

American Doctors over specialise and they have too little responsibility. Here in the UK we don't have specific sections we just have a general area. It's better as our day to day job is less repetitive and more fun as a result.

I want to be a surgeon though. I like cutting.

You couldn't put me down if you tried! The job I have was given to the two best students in our year. Myself and a girl, and it is doing very technical jobs. Of course all my work is checked by a Doctor but I am left alone with patients and I am free to talk to them and tell them about anything. Ranging from blood pressure to BMI.

Exaclty my point. My point was, If I am not a professional then nor are you. I have to have a licence so it makes me just as much of professional as you.

That is the litral meaning of professional, it is used in slang otherwise and is wrong.

No your misinformed.

"A professional is a person who has completed a doctoral or law program (a masters or bachelors degree does not infer a professional). The term professional is often misused. It is not to be confused with "White Collar" or "expert". A person who is white collar performs a job that requires education and does not involve physical labor. An expert is a person in a profession that requires certain types of skilled work requiring formal training or education. In western nations, such as the United States, the term commonly describes highly educated, mostly salaried workers, who enjoy considerable work autonomy, economic security, a comfortable salary, and are commonly engaged in creative and intellectually challenging work."

A professional in the litral sense is someone that has completed a doctoral or law program.

Not to be rude, but how are you a medical professional at the age of 18? What is your title?

If you take the litral sense of professional then sure you are correct.

However I'm working in a hospital with Doctors as a trainee/junior doctor on probation.

I'm giving advice like that and much much more complex than that. If I had said something wrong then sure. But I spoke about BMI and said that it was a guide line at best and that waist to hip ratio was the most accurate by far.

This advice any health care professional would give and I know that to be true.