an interview with a doctor

Eng 1001

Interview of a doctor
My English 1001 interview started off bad no one wanted to let me interview them for a freshman level LSU paper that would be posted on the internet. However after about my eighteenth person I finally got someone. Dr. Tim Thompson who agreed to meet with me and allow me to write the paper as long as I agreed to leave out his name. We met on the first floor of the gastroenterologist clinic in his office. He was very professional looking with a white coat and a suit underneath yet when I met him he was very laid back and nice.
I started the interview off by asking him to tell me about what he actually does so he told me “I am a gastroenterologist which if you do not know is a doctor who specializes in intestinal problems” basically a stomach doctor \. He went on to say that “some days he will go to some of the diff hospitals like our lady of the lake and the baton rouge general t see patients or he will just see them at their building which is much more convenient for him because he hates going to places like the lake where no matter how many times you go there you always seem to get lost especially now that they are doing construction on it.” He told me he would start of by getting the patients history then from what they told him he would figure out what was wrong with them and give them medicine. I also asked if he had to do any surgery and he jokingly replied the closest thing to surgery I have to do is to stick a tube up some ones rectum. Which I found out is called scoping which is when they take a tube with a little camera up you rectum to see what is wrong with your insides.
After that first little question I could tell he was comfortable with being interviewed because he didn’t hesitate to make jokes and he answered some common questions before I even asked him for instance he told me his favorite part of work was being able to meet so many new people every day and that you never know when you will meet someone that you become good friends with or the people that give you nice gifts. He also said that the worst thing is the amount of hours he has to work and all the paper work he has to do. He usually works from about seven to nine at night because of how many people he has to see. His schedule is always filled and he usually has two to three hours of paper work at the end of the day. Also everyone is only allowed one holiday off and they don’t really get to choose which one so some times he might get Easter off rather than Christmas or thanksgiving that he wants.
Even with all of the hours he has to do he seems like he still has a good family life. He has two sons who are twelve and sixteen and one little girl who just turned six a few weeks ago. He says that everyone he works with is very nice and if he really has to go watch his son play baseball or something else like that they are usually more than willing to cover for him. He has a beautiful wife too and isn’t afraid to brag about how wonderful she is and how much she helps out around the house and with the kids and how he could never live without her. One of his favorite things to do is when he gets time off to go down to his property his grandfather left him where they can go hunting and fishing and he says there’s a nice cabin up there and they just got a pool put in so it’s like a mine vacation and he takes the whole family up there at least once a month.
My last question was if all the work and studying and years in school was worth it and he said that he loves this job and the hard work was worth it and that now he makes good money too and is confident that he can support his family. However you never stop having to study he gets pamphlets and books all the time that he has to read and take quizzes on and once a year he has to take a big test and if he fails his license is revoked until he retakes it and passes and that it is hard because science never stops coming up with new research and findings and new techniques for this and that and all the new medicine he has to read up on and it can become a real pain, but in the end it was well worth it. After that we shook hands and he went to work and I went home.