A professional courtesy

As I go through life, I find myself awed by the ability of music to induce emotions.  It is certainly a facet of our culture that merits research (and is producing it, little by little).  It is wondrous, this production of an emotional change based on hearing certain sequences of sounds that lack phonological meaning.  I certainly have some projects in mind should my path lead me down the research end of things.

However, there is another career path that I am currently entertaining: that of becoming a practicing physician or dentist.  This relates to the ability of music to induce emotions in that, for me, a playlist filled to the brim with red, hot METAL gets me pumped and ready to be productive.  It also does wonders for staving off boredom.  The problem is that metal isn't exactly the best background music for patient care.  Listen to an album by Children of Bodom, Dope, Soulfly, etc. and see if they can go through two songs (instrumentals don't count) without dropping the f-bomb.

Now, we know that wearing headphones when dealing with patients is considered rude and unprofessional, so I would have to listen to the metal over the office radio, which means that this would not be a good environment for children, so I cannot provide care for them.  I realize that this is shutting out two demographics of potential patients, namely: children and people who take their children with them when visiting doctors' offices.

This may actually be a plus!  Who likes being in a waiting room while noisy children who have nothing to do with you get all up in your bid-ness with their shouting, bawling, biting, sweet rave parties, toy-throwing, vomiting, and exclamations?*  Nobody!  There exists a specialization of medicine entitled "pediatrics" that cuts out the demographic of patients who are not children, so I propose to go in reverse: become an ADULT physician/dentist.

*Examples: "Mommy!", "Stop!", "Achoo!", "WRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY", (the last one is representative of what my children will yell)

This idea needs some refinement, however, since whenever you put "adult" in front of anything, it means that it's pornographic, and that's just not the kind of ship I'd be running.  It would be so hawkward.

I don't actually plan on doing this.  I just wanted an excuse to post that image.