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Hi everyone! My name is John and I am a first year resident in Neurology.
I always loved reading about the brain(it's anatomy and physiology), and also it's pathology, so I chose neurology after finishing college. But the problem is that in my city(Bucharest), the best hospital in neurology is an emergency hospital. Ok, you will say neurology is from many points of view an emergency specialty, so it was predictable.
But I am a pretty anxious guy(and introvert too), and I don't like the idea of lots of emergencies, especially when I will be on call. From what I hear, at that hospital there are 4 neurologists on call every night, and aprox. 100 consultations, and I don't think I will be up to it.
I also don't know how much I will really enjoy neurology, even if I will practice in a "chronic disease" hospital(e.g with Parkinson, Alzheimer, MS, etc).
I guess I would have been more satisfied perhaps as a researcher in neuroscience, but unfortunately that isn't possible in my country.
I forgot to mention that I have been offered the possibility to work at the Oncology Institute at a project on cerebral tumors(research). This can be done in parallel with my residency, because it won't be so time consuming. But I was thinking if it's not maybe a good idea to move to oncology.
Has anyone been in similar situations(not necessarily with neurology, but with any other specialty)? If so, what did you do? I would like to hear other stories.
I always loved reading about the brain(it's anatomy and physiology), and also it's pathology, so I chose neurology after finishing college. But the problem is that in my city(Bucharest), the best hospital in neurology is an emergency hospital. Ok, you will say neurology is from many points of view an emergency specialty, so it was predictable.
But I am a pretty anxious guy(and introvert too), and I don't like the idea of lots of emergencies, especially when I will be on call. From what I hear, at that hospital there are 4 neurologists on call every night, and aprox. 100 consultations, and I don't think I will be up to it.
I also don't know how much I will really enjoy neurology, even if I will practice in a "chronic disease" hospital(e.g with Parkinson, Alzheimer, MS, etc).
I guess I would have been more satisfied perhaps as a researcher in neuroscience, but unfortunately that isn't possible in my country.
I forgot to mention that I have been offered the possibility to work at the Oncology Institute at a project on cerebral tumors(research). This can be done in parallel with my residency, because it won't be so time consuming. But I was thinking if it's not maybe a good idea to move to oncology.
Has anyone been in similar situations(not necessarily with neurology, but with any other specialty)? If so, what did you do? I would like to hear other stories.