forensics

P

Aspiring middle-european medical student here, I am only at the 4th year of uni (it takes 6 years in my country), and I have been considering pathology or forensic medicine as my future profession, since these catched my attention the most, and I passed the exams with an excellent qualification (not to brag, but just like my most exams, I am really passionate about my medical career, and I think I have the brains to do it right). What were people’s reactions, when they asked me about which specialty will I choose in the future? “You’re too pretty to become a pathologist” -a surgeon ” How are you going to have kids? Maybe you’d be happier as a family doctor. It’s not all about the money”- a nurse from the cardiology ward “I don’t want my granddaughter to work with corpses and crime stuff, that’s just so horrible. You won’t be able to bear with all that emotionally. Why don’t you become a pediatrician? It’s so much nicer to work with kids.”- my gradmother (I really dislike kids, by the way, sorry gran.) “That skirt on you just makes me as stiff as this dead bloke here”- pathology technician trying to flirt (over a stiff body, of course) “Forensics?? That’s totally an all-male field, do’t expect much success there.”- a fellow male classmate “How will you tell your kids, when they ask what do you do for a living? Like ‘well, mommy cuts up dead people for money’!!?”- female classmate (Again I’m really not into having kids, but if I change my mind any time, I hope my kids will be smart enough to understand that a pathologist does a very complex diagnostic work with modern technology, and yeah, sometimes we cut up corpses. These are what come into my mind now, but I get similar reactions most of the time. I am really looking forward the day when I break out of this s***hole town, and become a succesful doctor, and they get stuck in their miserable little lives.