Doctor Karen Sibert Summary

Dr. Karen Sibert’s advice to the students who are thinking and working towards that final destination of one day becoming a doctor, especially women, was the following. . . “If having work-life balance is important to you, then don’t become a doctor. You can’t have it all, medical education is a privilege, not an entitlement, and it confers a real moral obligation to serve. If you want to work AND be a mother, then you can find a job in journalism or professional cooking or law. If you want to be a doctor, be a doctor. Patients need doctors to take care of them. Medicine shouldn’t be a part-time interest to be set aside if it becomes inconvenient; it deserves to be a life’s work.” Sibert’s comment has quite literally stirred the pot in the medical schools around the country. Most did not take kindly to her comment, and others might have ‘somewhat’ partially-agreed to what she had said towards the career choice of becoming a doctor. We will be using this as an introduction to whether or not a career in medicine would be a rewarding and most promising field in US at the moment. (Sibert)

The Mariam Webster dictionary defines stress as “a state of mental tension and

R. was immediately told about the patient and that there would be a meeting to review the case. When Dr. R arrived home later that day, her strength was totally depleted. For two days thereafter she could not get out of bed, lost her appetite and could barely get 2 to 3 hours sleep per night. This is Dr. R’s second episode of severe exhaustion. The first occurred at the end of her psychiatry residency, while preparing for board certification. She has never smoked cigarettes and does not drink alcohol. She performs most of the household chores, entailing substantial physical exertion, but engages in no recreational physical activity. Her parents are retired physicians, in good health, and live in another town. She is an only child. Most members of her genetic family are healthy, to her