I’d have to imagine that the stress and emotional toll is significantly higher for a paediatric oncologist than a bus driver. There’s not so many people that could cope with that.
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Gladaed@feddit.org 1 week agoThey are just doctors. No need to glorify them. They do no more or less than a bus driver. Most jobs have an emotional toll.
blackn1ght@feddit.uk 6 days ago
barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 6 days ago
Good to know. Next time I have a medical issue, I’ll ask my bus driver for a diagnosis. What are your thoughts on subway drivers or Uber drivers?
misteloct@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Agreed, I would be equally angry if a bus driver were detained by ICE. Their immigrants status and then solidarity is more important than their profession.
shawn1122@lemm.ee 6 days ago
Having known several healthcare workers with PTSD from the pandemic I strongly disagree.
Granted the pandemic was traumatizing for people from all walks of life but I don’t envy hospital based nurses or doctors from that time.
It was so painful for nurses that many quit and we still have a nursing shortage today and likely for the next decade as a result.
Boomkop3@reddthat.com 4 days ago
You’re right though. We don’t need healthcare
Kage520@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Different energy. Bus driver has to deal with many potentially grumpy people in many potentially unsafe areas. Not an easy job.
A doctor that is specifically specializing in a field where he has to get to know and take care of children as they die in a potentially painful way, has a much different challenge. Less for safety or aggressive people (though maybe parents could be I guess) but more in being the one to watch as the hope fades for each individual child in their last days.
I wouldn’t love the bus driving job. I don’t think I could do the pediatric oncology one for more than like, one patient ever. I’d be depressed forever.
Angelusz@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Let’s agree to disagree. I respect bus drivers as much as you do. Some people, however, have a greater positive effect on humanity as a whole, and that deserves its own form of respect.
head_socj@midwest.social 6 days ago
I agree to disagree. Doctos may have a more immediate bad tangible benefit on people’s health and well-being, but providing safe and reliable public transportation to untold amounts of working class people who may rely on you to provide for their families is also a massive positive effect that should not be diminished simply for being less culturally prominent.
michaelmrose@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Its not being diminished you are diminishing doctors who save dying children after 20 years of intensive education with driving a bus
head_socj@midwest.social 5 days ago
Well, no point in arguing with someone like you. Regardless, as a practicing immunologist I don’t feel the least bit diminished by having the social utility of my work compared to other people; ESPECIALLY if it’s on the arbitrary basis of the amount of time, money, or education it took someone to become “valuable to society.” As for any of my colleagues who do feel that way: grow up; healthcare is a service, and we are service workers.