What specialty would you guys think is good for anti-social people? Not like seriously anti-social just not good at talking to people/selling stuff.
Good luck getting into med school if you're not good at talking to people.
Radiology and pathology, though even with radiology it isn't uncommon to have to talk to your peers rather than patients if they want to go over images with you.
That said, there are plenty of extremely awkward people in medicine that see patients. Sometimes I wonder how they manage to retain patients, yet they do.
I love when people use psychological terms incorrectly. You realize antisocial personality disorder has little to do with being shy/awkward, right? It refers to treating others poorly while being indifferent to it. A lot of criminals are antisocial. It's unfair to compare introverts to criminals.
Doctors generally aren't selling anything lol.What specialty would you guys think is good for anti-social people? Not like seriously anti-social just not good at talking to people/selling stuff.
I've got this weird thing where I come off well to patients that I'll rarely, if ever, see again, but I'm awkward with coworkers I know I'm going to be working with later. After a couple years in a given environment, I start to chill out and make friends, but initially I'm always very standoffish. Likely largely stems from my policy of separating my personal and professional lives completely.I'm kinda awkward with some people. But the people I do click with, I really click with them well
Doctors generally aren't selling anything lol.
Path and rads are the classic "I don't like interacting with people" specialties.
I'm aware of all that- I've had to play the "you need this treatment because" and "could you write me an order for" game for quite some time. I just take issue with the word "selling." Convincing, certainly. But the word selling had bad subtext, generally.Half of being a doctor is being a salesman. You are constantly selling to your patients, other providers, and even people within your own practice. For starters, remember that most pre-med/medical students/residents don't see how the majority of physicians practice, ie. private practice. Academic medicine is very different and having your training based around a big medical school + hospital gives people a warped sense of how things work for most physicians. Even within academics, there is a tremendous amount of buying and selling. Every time the ER calls me, they are trying to sell something. Every time I call a Nephrologist for a HD consult, I am selling something. Every time I explain the procedure that I 'need' to perform to a patient and their family, I am selling something. Medicine by and large is a people specialty. Yes, there are specialties where this is severely minimized, but for the bulk of the work force, not being able to put on a friendly face and interact at least somewhat normally with the average person around you is fairly detrimental.
I'm aware of all that- I've had to play the "you need this treatment because" and "could you write me an order for" game for quite some time. I just take issue with the word "selling." Convincing, certainly. But the word selling had bad subtext, generally.
I'm just a stickler for language, particularly in a culture that is increasingly hostile to physicians and science.