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And how many are there because md/do school didn't work out...?
also did not vote because like De Niro said, both options apply to me. Also for medical students, stuff doesnt get their way either. I cant tell how many times I have seen a medical student tell that he/she is going to be a neurosurgeon and ends up being a Family Practitioner (nothing wrong with that but that is completely different from what they were expecting). A family friend said he was going to be a dermatologist and make 350k for 40 hours, he ended up going to a Emergency Medicine residency, so much for that hope for a "lifestyle specialty." As cliche as it sounds, nothing is perfect. If it was I would be an actor in Hollywood playing the Flash in a DC Comics movie
A family friend said he was going to be a dermatologist and make 350k for 40 hours, he ended up going to a Emergency Medicine residency, so much for that hope for a "lifestyle specialty."
He's gonna work 10 days a month in the ED. Not a bad lifestyle...
Eh, 3-4 days a week feels like a lot more when you are having to switch between day and night shifts. The common sentiment over on the EM forum is that EM shifts should have a multiplier to accurately compare the hours worked to other specialties.
Also, one of my favorite quotes about EM from SDN goes something like "any specialty that requires you to manually disimpact a 400 pound gomer at 3 a.m. on Christmas morning shouldn't be considered a lifestyle specialty."