Lifestyle in Functional Neurosurgery?

[VanDiemen]

Does anyone have opinions on whether the lifestyle of a functional neurosurgeon would be less stressful? I would imagine that in the realm of neurosurgery, someone who subspecialized in functional or stereotactic neurosurgery would have a pretty decent quality of life compared to a cerebrovascular specialist.

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[blueskyline]

Does anyone have opinions on whether the lifestyle of a functional neurosurgeon would be less stressful? I would imagine that in the realm of neurosurgery, someone who subspecialized in functional or stereotactic neurosurgery would have a pretty decent quality of life compared to a cerebrovascular specialist.

bump. can anyone comment on this?

 

[Mad Doctor]

I am also interested in this topic. Someone, please respond.

 

[bambi]

If you still have to do general NS on call you will still be reasonably busy at least some of the time I imagine.

 

[anfleisch]

What is it that makes neurosurg (call or weekly) require so many hours? For instance, aren't standard ortho trauma situations more common than that in neurosurg? Is it just that the surgeries are longer or that acquiring patients takes many more hours in the clinic?

 

[bambi]

What is it that makes neurosurg (call or weekly) require so many hours? For instance, aren't standard ortho trauma situations more common than that in neurosurg? Is it just that the surgeries are longer or that acquiring patients takes many more hours in the clinic?

In terms of call in the UK at least NS is 50-60% emergency work and I don't see why that number would be significantly different in the US. So, likelihood of you actually doing something on call is pretty high and yeah NS cases are often very long. What do you mean by standard ortho trauma? Not all of what could technically be called trauma would need to be dealt with immediately, limb threatening stuff etc obviously would but not everything is that serious so they might be less busy on call? In terms of general hours it would depend on your patient load in general, how much you go above the call of duty and again lots of cases are very long. Ortho patients are also often young and recover from their injuries reasonably quickly, in NS people can be very ill requiring a lot more of your input and they take longer to recover. This isn't true for every patient, obviously there are some old sick patients in ortho etc

 

[anfleisch]

Makes sense. Thanks. By standard ortho trauma I meant your average, everyday fracture from some sort of accident.

 

[Raygun77]

Makes sense. Thanks. By standard ortho trauma I meant your average, everyday fracture from some sort of accident.

Most of this is dealt with in the ED w a backslab and appointment for fracture clinic where i am. Not sure how much ortho input there actually is