Best specialties with work to life balance

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What specialties of medicine offer the best lifestyle in terms of hours to life balance. I would also love to have time for leisure activities like lifting/working out/spending time with family, but am also hardworking and dedicated. Got any insight Bros. I am interested in ortho, but don't know if it has the lifestyle I want, and maybe an internal medicine subspecialty like allergy/immunology because of the lifestyle, but am unsure.
 
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Fuarky said:
What specialties of medicine offer the best lifestyle in terms of hours to life balance. I would also love to have time for leisure activities like lifting/working out/spending time with family, but am also hardworking and dedicated. Got any insight Bros. I am interested in ortho, but don't know if it has the lifestyle I want, and maybe an internal medicine subspecialty like allergy/immunology because of the lifestyle, but am unsure.
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There are no hard and fast rules...I've worked with ob/gyn's that work 10-3 and anesthesiologists that would work 100+hrs/wk. I wouldn't buy in to the generalities at this point. Work on getting into med school. When you're on rotations you'll get a feel for the nature of work for each specialty and from that you'll be able to approximate the relative flexibility each field has to offer.

In general however, I think some of the fields where people GENERALLY have a fair amount of free time includes radiology, PM&R, derm, optho, peds, psych, ER,
fm, outpt im, etc.. Keep in mind there's considerable variability within each field and much of it has to do with how much time you want to spend at work.
 
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Though it's not for everyone, psychiatry often has a decent lifestyle. It's also one of the easier specialties to est. a private practice in. (Many of which run on a cash-only basis.)
 
Pathology is pretty sweet. ~40 hours a week and only occasional call (can be handled from home or vacation), plus a nice salary. It's also intellectually rigorous and leaves time for research or family duty (forensic pathology hours 8am-1pm most days). We used to listen and dance to rap music while making jokes about food in the morgue 🙂

Radiology is also cool for lifestyle--regular hours, good salary, not a lot of call, lots of opportunities for research and application of physics 🙂
 
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Pugzilla said:
Transplant surgery
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Really? Always assumed transplants would suck, as you're constantly getting called at random hours to remove the organ of a donor who just died and then having to drive/fly back to your home hospital to put it in one of yo' patients.
 
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