People think of pediatrics as "Veterinary medicine" or "just all those screaming kids," but there are a lot of perks:
- As much Pedialyte as you could ever drink.
- Being able to tell your spouse: "I should know about this, I give advice on this for a living" when you get into a parenting discussion. (They subsequently get mad at you and don't talk to you for the next day).
- Seeing the expression on a young boy's face when you give him a Barbie sticker.
- Having a "Fan Club" comprised entirely of girls in the range of 4-10 years of age.
- Getting paid for tickling kids.
- Earwax, lots of it.
- Having the pleasure of sitting in a small room with a hyperactive child and the mother yelling "stop that!" every 5 minutes.
- Justifying all of the doodling you did in boring college classes by now drawing goofy faces on the end of a tongue depresser.
- Being wonderfully popular at parties and at church, as people hit you up for advice on rashes, behavior problems, bedwetting, etc.
- The grin you get from a 6-month old when all you do is look at them.
