Why become ob gyn

Sep 3, Blog 2 comments. Here are a few reasons you should consider entering the field. More women than ever are requesting to see another female specialist these days. Women are naturally more comfortable talking with women, especially about sexual or pregnancy issues. These nurses and doctors deal with patients with premature births, a history of miscarriages, or preexisting conditions that could complicate childbirth. Not only is the obstetrics field one of the most fulfilling positions in healthcare, it is also one of the highest paying.

There is no typical day. So there are several days of the week when I have clinic in the morning, and I might have lectures with students in the afternoon.

I might have one day a week where I operate. I have a week when I do administrative work, meaning I design educational programs for students and for residents. So, in academic medicine, you are never, ever bored. You're always steep on your learning curve, and students keep you that way. For docs out in private practice, they might have three days a week when they do clinic, so they're in their clinic. They have one day a week when they operate.

They have a day a week they try to catch up. And, of course, they're running back and forth to do deliveries which aren't always scheduled. If you think you're always going to do this and get this done at a certain time, then you need to do something else.

Jones: Well, I would say there are a group of stories that come with patients who are going to have bone marrow transplants. So, for many years, I saw most of the women who were going to have a bone marrow transplant, usually for a life-threatening cancer. They were young women, and their future was going to be ending if they did not cure this cancer.

Bone marrow transplantation, at the time, is bringing someone almost to death with chemotherapy, and then snatching them back with someone else's bone marrow. And for these women, to watch them face a life-threatening cure from a life-threatening disease, watching their eyes as they hear that their fertility will be taken from them because the chemotherapy will take away their eggs, and seeing them afterwards, six months later and a year later, and watching them get on to their lives, they were the heroes for me.

There are so many women who've suffered from their infertility, from a rape, from abuse, from some awful surgery, but those women were, I think, examples of courage, and humor, and willingness to go forward in the face of uncertainty. And they shared it with me, and that was a privilege. Announcer: Want The Scope delivered straight to your inbox? Have you ever wondered to yourself, why on earth anyone would ever in their right mind go into a field where you look at vaginas all day?

Well, believe it or not, there's much more to it than that — and we found 10 gynecologists who were open enough to reveal the lowdown on Reddit. Do you know of anyone who went into the field for other amazing reasons? When I deliver a baby to a family who really wants that baby, man the feels. Plus I get to be the first person to hold them. Welcome to the world, little one! I actually detested the idea until I started medical school.

I was about doing ER for a long time, at least until I saw a C-section. That sold it for me. It was an easy decision. It feels great to help fix that. Don't vaginas gross you out now? Are you ever attracted to your patients?