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My gosh, he’s almost as bad as Sami. Oh, boo-hoo, I can’t be a surgeon anymore. Hey, dude! you’re still a doctor, have all your arms and legs, brain, etcs. Look how many highly-paid athletes find themselves in the same position, having to give up what they love along with mega-million dollar salaries. Life goes on, brother. Time to end the pity party and decide with you’re going to do with your life.
If the only definition of your life is surgery, then you probably made a big mistake from the very beginning. Something about putting all your eggs in one basket. He said it himself, maybe research is the way to go.
After working for 30 years with medical specialists, including surgeons I see it differently.
Being a pro athlete is a natural ability and they know their career is short lived and they could lose it at any time due to sports related injuries. A 10 year career for a pro athlete is a long one and they also know their career could be over after 1 season and 30 is considered old age. A pro athlete has to have a back-up plan for the time they can no longer play.
A surgeon sees this as their lifes work , they went to school for years to learn and hone their skill and only old age or voluntary retirement will end it. They have no back-up plans as they’re not needed.
Also even though being a surgeon is only one part of being a doctor if that’s where your heart is and you feel you do the best and can no loner do that it can be devistating.
I don’t think it matters the career if it is your chosen field and it gets taken away from you there has to be some mourning period. Maybe after the shock wears off and there is time for soul searching it is not the end of the world but other options are available. Many of us lose our jobs and it is hard to just say oh well and go on. At least for me it wasn’t and I did not train for years like a doctor would.
Yes but losing a job where you can still get another one in the same career, while devistating isn’t the same as not being able to do your chosen career ever. Think of a lawyer who gets disbarred. They can never practice law again but an accountant who gets fired is still an accountant and can still work in that profession.
being disbarred is something you have apparently brought on yourself. And being fired, or laid off, is not the same either. It’s not the same as having a problem over which you have no control. I don’t find Daniel a crybaby either. He really just found out about this and has to learn how to face it. I don’t believe anybody would not be emotionally devastated if they discovered they could not longer do the thing they loved most. It may take him a while to cope with it, as well it should, but I think he deserves a day or three to get used to the idea that he is no longer a surgeon.
to have that suddenly, or without warning, taken away would, I think, be devastating to any doctor. Sure, there are many other medical fields he can consider, even consultant in the O.R., but that’s not what he wants. His career as a surgeon, saving a person’s life (and we all know he’s a miracle doc, anyway) is all that he ever wants to be, so I can see him having a hard time with it being taken away so suddenly, before he has time to consider the alternatives. All he knows at this point is the word "irreversible," and he simply can’t deal with that right now. SC will be off screen for a couple of months soon, something personal I think, so maybe during that time he’ll find his own cure. It wouldn’t surprise me.
I’m not arguing it isn’t devastating, just that I think he is acting like it’s the end of his life. But, of course if he didn’t, we wouldn’t have the drama which is this show’s life blood.
I should think his concern would be more along the lines of what he will do with his career now without surgery in it. Lexie said it was "treatable" just not reversible, so it sounds to me like he could still operate. I wouldn’t put him in somebody’s brain but there are certainly other surgeries he could do where a tremor would not endanger anybody and he always has an asst. surgeon with him.
I guess I’m the eternal optimist and everybody isn’t like me. I believe we’ve had this conversation before when Sami went off the deep end even BEFORE she knew she had a problem.
I think once the initial shock wears off he will start focusing on what he’ll do with the rest of his life.
When I was working in the ER one night we had a guy come in with a self inflicted gun shot to the head. He was a cop who’d had a heart attack and was relegated to a desk job. He was so devistated that his career as a cop as he wanted it was over that he would have rather died than work that desk. When he came in nobody could believe someone would be suicidal over being moved forced to move to a different position within the Chicago Police Department. He was after all still a a member of the CPD and was still a police officer. I’m seeing Daniel in the same situation. Being a surgeon is much more than being an internist, family practice or neurologist just as for that cop being at a desk was not the same as being a detective on the streets in the middle of the action. At least Daniel’s not suicidal.
If you have ever watched Grey’s Anatomy, you wold have seen that surgeons are a special breed of doctor. Not eveyone can be one, but if you become on it is extremely But Dr. Dan is a unique individual since he came on the show as a specialist when Bo was having liver problems. He then went on to help Kate with lung cancer, also had a tryst with Chelsea and then Chloe had a relapse with her cancer. Finally he was putting Jennifer’s heart back.
he certainly is a versatile doctor!! I have never seen a doctoe so well versed. With all this talent, he could become the number one consultant for all diseases!
and he knows it will mean the end of his career as a surgeon. Nobody will insure him with that tremor. And I think he does realize that he has to look to a new career path but give the guy a break. He just found all this out like what hours ago in Salem time? It’s gotta be a shock and overwhleming at the moment.
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