There is one thing that really frustrates me almost every day. It's not medical knowledge or clinical skills. Do I have profound medical knowledge and awesome people skills that make patients jump up and down with joy? No.. But what frustrates me more is my ignorance about everything in life other than medicine.

I'm working with all sorts of people. People who are quite and people who are loud. People who enjoy reading books and people who enjoy spending weekend nights getting totally wasted. People who like sports and people who like computer games.

More often than not there would be no interaction with me and co-workers because whatever they try to talk to me about, I wouldn't know about it. For example, people talk about politics ad nauseum with the election in 3 weeks. But, I have absolutely nothing to contribute to the conversation. So, in the end I get labelled as "quite" and noone makes attempts to approach me. Of course, I don't approach other people to make small talks either because that's not my comfort zone. Well, not having gossip time with co-workers is okay. But, it happens with patients as well. Some patients wants to talk about sports, cars, politics, relationships, etc. And not being able to build rapport with them kind of frustrates me...