Being an ICU Doctor

A doctor must be psychologically fit for this job –able to make decisions under a terrifying amount of pressure, able to break bad news to anguished relatives, able to deal with death on a daily basis.

They must have something that cannot be memorized and graded. 

A great doctor must have a huge heart and a distended aorta through which pumps a vast lake of compassion and human kindness & medical colleges don't give a shit about all these in academic years.

As you might imagine, learning every single aspect of the human body’s anatomy and physiology, plus each possible way it can malfunction & then find a solution for each malfunction/disease, is a fairly giant task in itself & then turning this theory into practice is a huge task ahead after education.

During day time you may be able to do these over the years of learning & still accept the failures you come across during your practice. 

Then comes one more turnover 'Nights'. You have to be more alert during your sleep also bcz 'usually' there are more urgent calls then your day time calls. 

And the best part is, these all don't stop till you die, there is no retirement from work in the medical field/critical care.  Physically, Mentally, Emotionally, Morally, u will always be working.

People might think they earn a lot for all these but believe me, Money is out of Question here, proportional to taking Life-Death decisions literally, everyday. For that matter, there are better ways to earn if one wishes to, but here, It’s a sink or swim business, and you have to learn daily, how to swim because otherwise a ton of patients may sink with you. And the process of learning swimming with your patients, never stops here! May God bless all doctors' working in the ICU because I know what exactly it feels like!