> Action-packed and gratifying? Sure. Fun? No. I looked up the etymology of "fun" and you are right - Middle English fonne, fon (“foolish, simple, silly”). Th

> Action-packed and gratifying? Sure. Fun? No. I looked up the etymology of "fun" and you are right - Middle English fonne, fon (“foolish, simple, silly”). That said, I'll take action-packed and gratifying over fun any day. Also, emergency medical doctors are extremely foolish people during their down time - medicine has an old tradition of utter silliness when it is time to blow off steam from the job's pressure. So there, fun too !