Needing something different

People always ask " Is it difficult to do medicine ?" I don't find doing medicine that particularly difficult. In fact in can get monotonous. As more and more "guidelines" come into play, doctors actually has very little room to "use his discretion". I mean how difficult it is to look for certain features and "just follow protocol"?

In fact sometimes I find medicine kinda boring now. There is no more thrill, no need to use brain matter too often. The protocol will take care of it. Procedures - the more you do it, the better you are at it. That's it! Its purely a technical skill much like a carpenter's. What's more difficult in medicine is to handle the interpersonal/interdepartmental interactions.

What takes a doctor's time nowadays is to just follow the latest development and trials in other places and perhaps taking part in some trials. Then again trials is about following protocols. How boring! You just need to be hardworking and keep up to date... I mean there is really not much room for creativity in medicine. In fact if you're too creative, you might get into trouble. Just follow "what most people will do" will save your skin in this age of legal repercussion ie just follow the "standard of care". This differs from other professions where you WANT to be different...medicine is where you do not want to be different.

In this way, medicine is quite constricting. Definitely not for people who are bored easily. I mean all doctors talk most of the time is "My patient has..this and that.." When you listen to this day in and day out for at least 5 days a week... Am I burning out or perhaps in the wrong field?

I need to do something different. Like having this banana beer...