Medical Blogs

I’ve recently done some research involving other medical blogs. While looking up these medical blogs, I couldn’t help but notice that a majority of them are about new cures for things, such as terminal illnesses, STD’s, exedra. Don’t get me wrong; I do agree that finding cures for diseases is very important. But I have to admit that I was disappointed with my findings. I was expecting to see more blogs about hospital workers’ personal experience. I was hoping to hear from people in the medical field and learn about what goes on in a hospital on the daily. I don’t want to say that I wasn’t looking hard enough, although that could very well be the case. But maybe medical blogs aren’t what I need to find out what it’s like to work in a hospital.

            Anyway, back to my findings. There were several bloggers that blogged about how hard it is to succeed in the medical field. Maybe these specific bloggers are referring just to becoming a doctor, but I know it’s difficult to succeed as any medical figure (ie. nurse, pediatrician). It’s good to let people know that they have to work hard to go into medicine, but at the same time, they shouldn’t be scaring them.

            It’s good to inform people about the struggles of going into medicine, whether they go to medical school or not, but I honestly think that if someone is planning on having career in the medical field, they at least know a little bit about what they’re getting themselves into. I was looking for specific experiences about people’s careers in the hospital, not information about their journey full of struggles. I know that I’m in for lots of hard work, but I have yet to know what it’ll be like when I get there.

            My point of this particular blog was to encourage experienced people in the medical field to begin writing blogs that inform readers about career life in the hospital. Although it is helpful to know what the college part of it is going to be like, some of us want to hear about the real life stuff.

            Maybe people don’t want to discuss what happens in a hospital, because I lot of the time the happenings are unpleasant. I do understand that. But there should be at least a few blogs out there about what happens in a hospital, no matter how disturbing the details. Because it’s reality.