-: I love that I'm expected to sit down and really
listen to you and have a good conversation with you
and get a really thorough history.
So I love that, I love establishing
relationships with patients.
I like my field as well because you know we do
have followups, it's not like something where I just
see you, treat you and I may never see you ever again.
So I think that's fun, getting to see someone progress and
get better and then get back to what they wanted to do,
what they were doing before they were injured.
I love that it's a procedure heavy specialty.
I love doing injections, aspirations, I love casting,
you know reducing fractures.
And I know I think it takes a special kind of person,
you know you have to have that mindset.
Some people don't like those things, you know,
bones, blood, that kind of stuff, but I really do enjoy it.
And I love having a surgical aspect to it as well,
I like going in an you know giving someone a new joint,
or a new ACL or you know just helping them recover.
I would say that you know trying to help someone and either
they don't want to be helped and that's frustrating,
because, but you kinda have to take a step back
and know that it is a person's right if they want to
do something or not.
It's just, if you feel like something is just so simple
then if they would just follow your instructions
they would do OK and they just don't want to listen to you.
Trying, or having someone come in thinking that it's
something simple and it ends up being something more
drastic or more serious like cancer.
You know if they have cancer of one organ but it's
spread to the bone and that's kind of where we see them
and then having to tell them that,
that's a definite challenge.