What makes us accept the way we work? Maybe the pleasure of practicing medicine!☆

so, if we consider them according to unremunerated activity, ur professional activity has a side of satisfaction and pleaure, which is formed by practicing our specialty: making iagnoses, operating and evaluating results. Orthopedics is a pecialty with objective diagnoses and treatments that generlly bring favorable results, as assessed by our patients. The remuneration for our work is our great problem: we re very badly paid in comparison with other professionals nd we take on responsibilities that are not matched in any ther activity. The devaluation of medical actions is absurd n all senses, and it is even strange that society accepts this ituation. In relation to patients, there is a certain aura of dignity in octors’ activities that makes remuneration something that an be questioned. The question that always arises is: “But if here is no money, is the person just left with the disease?” For the majority of liberal professionals, their remuneraion is related to the cost of the work. This is how architects, ngineers and lawyers work: they charge their fees based on ercentages of the cost of the work to be carried out. If doctors ere to receive a percentage of the hospital bill, this attitude ould be considered unworthy. What makes us accept the way we work? Maybe the pleaure of practicing medicine. In parallel with this complex activity of attending patients, reating them and being remunerated inadequately, we have he activity of continuing education at congresses, one-day vents, lectures and, today, internet transmissions. There is o doubt that such activities are intensive and consume a lot f time, but they are agreeable nonetheless. In these activities, our vocation of working for little money r paying to learn reaches its zenith. Doing courses and training, attending congresses, makng presentations, participating in examinations, writing