I think it’s time to admit that I’m too introverted for this career. I made the wrong choice

// Vent //

I don’t like seeing patients anymore. I don’t know if I ever really liked it or medicine at all. I work in a SNF seeing 24 patients a day and it’s too socially, mentally, and emotionally exhausting. I know that SNFs can be tough but the more I think about it the more I realize that any clinical medicine job will cause me to burn out because I simply don’t like talking to people this much. My visits are literally only 5-15 minutes (usually) and it’s still too much. To me that is a bad sign. I would consider surgery if I didn’t hate it even more. I’m crying in the middle of the day because I don’t know how I can keep doing this, the dread I feel every morning knowing I have to do this over and over again is overwhelming. I just don’t know what to do anymore, if I had known I didn’t have it in me to talk to patients all day I would’ve never pursued this. Now I’m in a crazy amount of debt and escape feels impossible.

Posted Mar 5, 2026, 7:59 PM UTC

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