"You're a Doctor? How much do you make?"

Somebody asked: "You're a Doctor? How much do you make?"
I replied: "HOW MUCH DO I MAKE?" ...
I can make holding your hand seem like the most important thing in the world when you're scared...
I can make your child breathe when they stop...
I can help your father survive a heart attack...
I can make myself get up at 4AM to make sure your mother has the medicine she needs to live...and I will work straight
through until 4am to keep her alive and start the day all over again!
I work all day to save the lives of strangers...
I will drop everything and run a code blue for hours trying to keep you alive!!!
I make my family wait for dinner until I know your family member is taken care of...
I make myself skip lunch so that I can make sure that everything I did for your wife today was correct...
I work weekends and holidays and all through the night because people don't just get sick Monday though Saturday and during normal working hours.
Today, I might save your life.
How much do I make?
All I know is, I make a difference.

Posted by: Subrahmanyam Karuturi

PS : Today I had patient having some chronic complaints. The history taking lasted  almost an hour. At the end of it the patient remarked, "Thank you Doctor. Your questions made me introspect. Now a days we don't get time to introspect even."

So I may add
I make my patients introspect, so that , they get know themselves & make course-correction.