Can't decide between Anesthesia or Medicine. Pros and Cons?
Do a search ... look on gas forums at the top (Anesthesia FAQ). You really should come up with your own pro/con list since mine might be very different from yours.
Hopefully you have some idea now since you are going to be a fourth year next year. Didn't you do a medicine rotation? And a surgery rotation?
If you really are serious you should schedule an anesthesia elective as early as possible so you can decide if you really like it.
Quickly ...
Anesthesia
PROS - NO rounding, quick decisions with results often observed fast, only take care of one patient at a time, PROCEDURES, NO outpatient office (unless you are pain)
CONS - reimbursement is declining, lots of politics (having to work with difficult personalities in the OR), little respect from the rest of the medical field (you are known as the doctor who sits and does crossword puzzles - even though this is often untrue), little gratification (patients don't usually remember the anesthesiologist), early hours
Medicine
PROS - taking care of a variety of patients at once, have the option of MANY specialties following graduation, have a lot of down time
CONS - ROUNDING, ROUNDING, ROUNDING, slow pace sometimes, did I mention rounding, LONG hours
yea, if you look at physician surveys, anesthesiologists are always the 'happiest' with their lives.
That's because:
"He'll be suspending you in a near-death stateslowing your heart, numbing your nerves, loosening your grip on consciousnesswhile simultaneously siphoning off drugs for himself and, at times, shooting up right in the middle of the operation. One mistake and you could end up dead, or in a never-ending coma."
http://health.msn.com/general/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100148089
Anesthesia
PROS - NO rounding, quick decisions with results often observed fast, only take care of one patient at a time, PROCEDURES, NO outpatient office (unless you are pain)
CONS - reimbursement is declining, lots of politics (having to work with difficult personalities in the OR), little respect from the rest of the medical field (you are known as the doctor who sits and does crossword puzzles - even though this is often untrue), little gratification (patients don't usually remember the anesthesiologist), early hours
I don't exactly look to Mens' Health for an objective view on any topic beyond "How to get rock-hard abs in 6 weeks"
Do a search ... look on gas forums at the top (Anesthesia FAQ). You really should come up with your own pro/con list since mine might be very different from yours.
Hopefully you have some idea now since you are going to be a fourth year next year. Didn't you do a medicine rotation? And a surgery rotation?
If you really are serious you should schedule an anesthesia elective as early as possible so you can decide if you really like it.
Quickly ...
Anesthesia
PROS - NO rounding, quick decisions with results often observed fast, only take care of one patient at a time, PROCEDURES, NO outpatient office (unless you are pain)
CONS - reimbursement is declining, lots of politics (having to work with difficult personalities in the OR), little respect from the rest of the medical field (you are known as the doctor who sits and does crossword puzzles - even though this is often untrue), little gratification (patients don't usually remember the anesthesiologist), early hours
Medicine
PROS - taking care of a variety of patients at once, have the option of MANY specialties following graduation, have a lot of down time
CONS - ROUNDING, ROUNDING, ROUNDING, slow pace sometimes, did I mention rounding, LONG hours
ANESTHESIA - 45-50 hour weeks - I make about $350K/yr
MEDICINE - More than 45-50 hour weeks - good luck making more than $200k/yr
Being happy in your job, whatever it is - priceless.
i still dont know why anestehisolosgistsfsd are paid so much
Family medicine, in the right setting, seeing say a max of 15 pts a day would be a fun job
Unfortunately family med docs see 30-50 pts a day and barely have time to say hello.
i still dont know why anestehisolosgistsfsd are paid so much
I'm sure it has something to do with their ability to allow patients to teeter on the brink of death, unable to produce any muscular contractions or sense any stimulus, allowing surgeons to perform all manner of medieval procedures without any recollection of the event. I'd pay good money for that.
But don't anesthesiologists pay the surgeons for the privilege of coming to their cases?
Don't hit me, I'm kidding.
i still dont know why anestehisolosgistsfsd are paid so much
That's because:
"He'll be suspending you in a near-death stateslowing your heart, numbing your nerves, loosening your grip on consciousnesswhile simultaneously siphoning off drugs for himself and, at times, shooting up right in the middle of the operation. One mistake and you could end up dead, or in a never-ending coma."
http://health.msn.com/general/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100148089
lol, i'm just a premed...but holy crap...did you guys even read that article?
Dr. Gold decided to take a close look at O.R. procedures and was immediately struck by the anesthesiologists' posture. They weren't standing upright or moving around, like everyone else involved in the operation, but spent the entire time crouched right next to the patient's head. Dr. Gold watched a heart operation and noticed that during the 10-hour procedure, the anesthesiologist never budged from his post, not even for a bathroom break.
Wait, he thought. What if the drugs are escaping from the patients' breath? The system for delivering drugs may be airtight, but how about the ventilation? Dr. Gold enlisted the University of Florida's nanotechnology group to use its mass spectronomy equipment to test for the presence of drugs above a patient's mouth. They scanned an O.R., and . . . jackpot! Sure enough, narcotics were detected not only in the air, but also on metal trays and tables--exactly the way vaporized gas would settle. "Fentanyl is extremely potent and active in the air--that's why the Russians used it to put everyone in the theater to sleep during the Chechen hostage crisis," Dr. Gold explains. "It's also easily absorbed through the skin."
Wait, but isnt fentanyl usually administered IV? I wasn't aware of it being a vaporized gas in the OR. . .
Wait, but isnt fentanyl usually administered IV? I wasn't aware of it being a vaporized gas in the OR. . .
Hilarious. ROFLMAO. Oh my God. "simultaneously siphoning off drugs for himself" too damned funnyThat's because:
"He'll be suspending you in a near-death stateslowing your heart, numbing your nerves, loosening your grip on consciousnesswhile simultaneously siphoning off drugs for himself and, at times, shooting up right in the middle of the operation. One mistake and you could end up dead, or in a never-ending coma."
http://health.msn.com/general/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100148089
Hilarious. ROFLMAO. Oh my God. "simultaneously siphoning off drugs for himself" too damned funny