Is health care a conscious career or should I find something better?

[enchanted]

Healthcare jobs like doctor, nurse, dentist, and even dental hygienist are respected jobs and involve directly helping people. The money is also pretty good. These jobs can also be quite fulfilling for these reasons.

Are these jobs still considered wage slavery? Should I try to find something more conscious? Or more in line with my life purpose? I feel fortunate to have a health care job but I also know I'm capable of much more. Should I stay the course or look for something else?

Thanks for you feedback in this matter. 

Edited 4 hours ago by enchanted

[Judy2]

depends on how you go about it.

unfortunately, i think many people start these careers with a good dose of idealism and it's the system (long hours, little time for individual patients, being required to prescribe meds to treat surface-level symptoms rather than curing underlying causes, and so on) that implicitly forces them to drop some of their good intentions.

however, there are certainly those who manage to hold on to their idealism and treat patients well despite the flaws of the health-care system.

 

are you working as a nurse or as a doctor?

what more do you think you are capable of?

Edited 2 hours ago by Judy2

[PenguinPablo]

@enchanted Even people at the top of the health care pyramid scheme such as multi-millionaire surgeons know it's broken.

But that's unfortunately the easiest way to survive in this world.

You have to be a real badass, super star I think to break away from hive / collective.

Such that you are too badass to ignore so you are celebrated. 

Like Eminem breaking into rap as a white guy. Didn't happen like that before him.

Or Leo Gura of Actualized.org

Up to you but it's definitely a pattern.

Even the doctors that make it big breaking away from traditional medical paradigm went through medical school and so on...