Well, for a successful marriage understanding, compatibility, and respect for one another is very important.
“jispe beetti hai wohi samajh sakta hai doosre ka dard” (only if you have been in the same shoes then only you can understand someone else).
Doctors can understand each other’s commitment towards work, late nights, erratic schedules, night duties, prioritizing the patient above everything else.
By the time one completes their mbbs he/she is usually 23 years or above and usually, that is when the marriageable age starts. But since MBBS is not enough and everyone goes for Post Graduation and sometimes even Super Speciality, doctors can very well understand the need to study long hours, burning the midnight oil, sacrificing social life to get a good rank, locking oneself in the room during exams.
Residency in itself is very tiring, emotionally, mentally, and physically draining, and sometimes there is no time to even eat, sleep or talk to family. Only another doctor can understand what hell the other doctor must be going through.
Doctors can even discuss among themselves cases that they see in their practice, give each other useful insights, help each other solve problems. They will be better able to share knowledge with one another rather than with a layman who is completely alien to complex medical terminologies.
And it is a common trend among doctors of a certain specialty to marry into a certain specialty. For example, I have seen many cases of OBG doctors marrying pediatricians, surgeons marrying anesthetists, pathologists marrying pathologist/microbiologist ( so that they can run their labs) etc. This helps them open their private practice easily as certain specialties are overly dependent on one another.
Doctors spend a significant amount of their lives in hospitals, medical college and its better to have your spouse working in the same setting as you do so that they can spend more time together which otherwise is difficult due to hectic workload.
Doctors marrying doctors also gives them a sense of financial security as usually most of the doctors earn decent enough though significant earnings may start in the later part of their careers. And this fact is understood by all doctors so they will accordingly support one another.
Also, it is good to have your partner on the same intellectual level as yours so there is more compatibility, sharing of ideas, and better communication.
For women doctors marrying a doctor is more convenient who can understand her desire to postpone/ delay/limit childbearing so that she can focus on her career as this journey is quite long. Is she is having late night duties and hectic working hours and is not able to devote sufficient amount of time on certain days at home then her partner who is a doctor will be able to understand her rather than demeaning, humiliating or giving a lecture like in some households.
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