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Re: Seriously Considering??From: Anna Meenan, MD (annam@uic.edu)Sat Aug 8 12:51:52 1998
At Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Tia wrote: > >Hello everyone! Sorry to bother, but I am a Senior in HS with a 6mon. >old and very determined to finish school and have a career. I will have >my CNA in about 5 mon. and I know I want to enter the medical field but >I'm not real sure what I want to specialize in??? Could everyone give >some information about being a OBGYN. Do you like your job? and why? >schooling? things they could help me out?? > >Thanks:) For some reason only the beginning and the end of my message were transmitted, I think, so at the risk of sounding redundant, I will try one more time. As a former feminist who once thought what you are planning would be just great, I have to say that after 11 years in college, med school, and residency, three kids, and a 15-year career in family practice, with an 18-month stint as a defacto single mom while my hubby went out of town on a job, I can tell you your baby will definitely suffer if you pursue a career in medicine. Children are a full-time commitment, and med school and residency are a more than full time commitment, and I cannot imagine attempting to start on that road at age 16 with a newborn. Perhaps if you have a pair of supportive parents who will raise the baby for you, but then you have to understand that they will be the parents and you will be a somewhat peripheral figure in your baby's life. The evidence is already overwhelming that children who have no father-figure in their lives do less well than children who have two committed parents. If the mother then absents herself too, there will be problems, I guarantee it. I admire you for wanting to do more with your life than just be a welfare mom, but for your baby's sake I would encourage you to postpone anything except perhaps part-time college until the baby is much older. Looking back, I find that a six-month-old requires infinitely less emotional energy than the raising and education of school-aged children does, and I cannot imagine attempting med school and residency with school-aged children at home and no father. Finally, I would strongly recommend you read The Ten Stupid Things Women Do to Mess Up their Lives, by Dr. Laura Schlessinger. (I'm not calling you stupid, but I think you will be glad you read the book if you do) Again, sorry my first and much more eloquent post got mangled in the computer, and I hope this one gets transmitted intact.
-- Anna L. Meenan, MD FAAFP
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