ZISCH-INTERVIEW with pediatrician Claudia Pfreundtner about joy and time pressure in everyday working life.
Zisch reporter Margarete Schäfer from class 4a of the Tunibergschule in Freiburg-Opfingen asked the pediatrician Claudia Pfreundtner about her job.
Hiss: How did you get into your job?
Friends: Even as a small child, when I was five or six years old, I said that I would like to become a pediatrician. I had a really great pediatrician myself, whom I really enjoyed going to. She was really nice, and although I always had to go there to take blood samples, which hurts, she was really very friendly. I liked it. So I thought I’d like to do that too. I’ve always enjoyed doing something with young children, so I thought this was the best job.
Hiss: How long have you been a doctor?
Friends: I worked in the children’s clinic for the first time in 2000. First I had to study, for a little over six years. I also did my internship at the children’s clinic during my studies. After that, I started working in the children’s clinic in 2000. So I’ve been working for about 20 years.
Hiss: Where do you work today?
Friends: I now work in a pediatric practice in Staufen.
Hiss: Why do you enjoy your work?
Friends: Because first of all I really like to do with children and like to talk to children and like to examine children. I have the feeling that the job also makes sense because I can help sick children get well again.
Hiss: What’s the most beautiful?
Friends: I find it most beautiful when I can give good advice to a mom who comes to me with her child and can help her. And if I can make a child healthy again. And the most beautiful thing is when the child is also happy to come to me and goes away laughing and not crying. Sometimes there are children who then even sit on my lap and are happy that they are given a piece of glucose. I think that’s really great!
Hiss: What are the disadvantages of your job?
Friends: That I sometimes have to hurt people too, even though they don’t feel like doing it at all. When they have a stomach ache and then I have to push around on their stomach as well. Or if they have to be vaccinated and piked, or if they have a blood drawn. Or if they don’t feel like being examined by me at all because they are strangers or don’t feel like being touched.
Hiss: What do you have the least fun?
Friends: I find it stupidest when I would like to examine something else about the children or have to talk to the parents more, but then there is not enough time because ten or 15 other sick children are still waiting. You always have to work in a bit of a hurry. That makes me a little unhappy sometimes.
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