Three medical students were discussing what specialties they were planning to go into when they finished school. One said, "I want to be a brain surgeon. That's the frontier, the cutting edge of medicine, where so many discoveries are being made." The second said, "I want to be a heart surgeon. There are so many people who need that kind of help; look at all the good I could do." The third said he wanted to be a dermatologist. When the others had finished laughing, they asked him why on earth he wanted to be a skin doctor. "Listen," he replied. "Your patients never die, they never get well, and they never get you up at night."
Three medical students were discussing what specialties they were planning to go into when they finished school.
One said,
"I want to be a brain surgeon. That's the frontier, the cutting edge of medicine, where so many discoveries are being made."
The second said,
"I want to be a heart surgeon. There are so many people who need that kind of help; look at all the good I could do."
The third said he wanted to be a dermatologist. When the others had finished laughing, they asked him why on earth he wanted to be a skin doctor.
"Listen," he replied. "Your patients never die, they never get well, and they never get you up at night."