The Medical Profession

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What does the speaker say about doctors' salaries?
They are paid well for a stressful job.
They ought to be paid more.
They often get small pensions.
They are paid too much money.
According to the speaker, what did the man at the bus stop tell him?
He was very wealthy.
He saved twenty people in one night.
He was going to go a party.
He worked as a chiropractor.
What does the speaker say about writers?
Writing is not as special as healing people.
Writers can provide healing to people.
Good writers often make good doctors.
Writing is as stressful as being a doctor.
Why does the speaker mention doctors of philosophy?
To note another fulfilling kind of work
To point out the importance of medical doctors
To explain what he is currently studying
To show that philosophy is also important
What is this passage mainly about?
The speaker's friends who are doctors
The skills necessary to become a doctor
The speaker's appreciation of doctors
The speaker's current studies in medical school
 I’d like to be a doctor one day.
'Cause I’ve met so many, nice people.
And I can see why it’s such an attractive job.
'Cause there's money, I mean, the fact that you will be paid and you’ll have a wicked pension.
And everything is gonna be sweet after.
You’re gonna have a very stressful job and that. 
But the job is so much better than the wage.
And the wage is huge.
So... It’s definitely a good job to get into.
I met this bloke at a bus stop whilst I was trying to go to a friend’s house.
And I ended up talking to him for half an hour. 
'Cause he had saved, twenty people in one night in Chicago on New Year’s.
He gave up his New Year’s to save twenty people alone from stabbings, from knife attacks. 
And  he managed to save twenty people.
And I’ve got a lot of respect for someone  who can do that.

I’ve got another friend who was at a party and knew first aid, knew chiropracty.
And he can like sort out all your joints and everything.
And he can make you stand straight just by touching you.
Which is a nice skill to have. 
To be able to do that with your hands.
I mean it’s not like writing is it.
Anyone can write, but can you heal someone.
Can you set a broken bone with your hands. 
Can you remove pain.
Can you remove stress.
Can you, make people’s lives happier just with your hands.
I mean fair enough, it does take five, seven, seven plus years to know about humans and, also animals. 
Cause you do this on animals as well.
And you can like, a horse breaks it’s leg that’s worth a few million pounds.
I'd rather have a chiropractor be paid fifty pounds or probably quite a lot more than that. 
To fix this broken, this broken leg on this thoroughbred than to have it shot gunned through the head. 
Because, I mean, it didn’t cost us anything, did it?
Apart from the years that this person will have to have spent gaining this knowledge.
But, it’s pretty interesting to learn about your own body and other people’s bodies. 
So I mean you can’t really complain.
Doctors are, I don't think I’ll ever be able to be one.
They're just too god damned cool.

I mean it’s like stress.
Have you ever seen ER [popular television program].
There are loads of doctor shows, aren’t there. 
There are loads of them.
And you see all these doctors stressing and having heart attacks.
Maybe they just try and save too many people. 
And, you have to be really lucky to be a doctor.
You’ve got to have a good mind.
You can be this kind of doctor. 
You can be a doctor of physics or a doctor of philosophy.
But I mean I’m talking about saving people’s lives.
And that has got to be  probably like, closest a bloke could ever get to giving birth.
Do you know what I mean.
It’s got a be very fulfilling thing.