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Literally copying and pasting this from another thread in the surgery sub forum from like two days ago. 😆
When medical students ask me how I picked my specialty, I always give them the same little story. I ask them what they love doing. They usually say surgery, or medicine, or cardiology or something like that. I tell them they've probably misheard the question. For example, I love sleep, food, and sex - not necessarily in that order. The med student invariably always corrects their answer and insists they also love those things. To which I reply, make a list of the things you really like. For me, it was surgery. For them it may be cardiology, or ID, or radiology. For you it sounds like DR, IR, and CT surgery.
Then I tell them that always keep in perspective the things you love, and choose something you really like that gives you the most time to do the things you love. That answer is almost never surgery - unless surgery is the only thing you liked.
Hope that helps.
When medical students ask me how I picked my specialty, I always give them the same little story. I ask them what they love doing. They usually say surgery, or medicine, or cardiology or something like that. I tell them they've probably misheard the question. For example, I love sleep, food, and sex - not necessarily in that order. The med student invariably always corrects their answer and insists they also love those things. To which I reply, make a list of the things you really like. For me, it was surgery. For them it may be cardiology, or ID, or radiology. For you it sounds like DR, IR, and CT surgery.
Then I tell them that always keep in perspective the things you love, and choose something you really like that gives you the most time to do the things you love. That answer is almost never surgery - unless surgery is the only thing you liked.
Hope that helps.
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Ok so that said, after reading your post, couple additional thoughts.
Every specialty has call unless you're doing like derm. Some can get this down to very low numbers like 3/month, but 1:5 call and one weekend a month is really standard. For medicine, for surgery, for IR, for DR. Anesthesia definitely not an exception, those preggo girls needing their epidurals and only seem to need them at 2am. Probs wouldn't perseverate about call until you're deciding on a fellowship around PGY2 or 3.
My first post is also very serious. Don't go into surgery, or even IR, if you have other options you would be happy doing. That said, in defense of IR, it is not at all a procedural dumping ground. Those guys do amazing cool **** and they do it better than surgeons can most of the time because they have higher volume and really know the scope of their work.
Edit: To sum up, medicine.
Every specialty has call unless you're doing like derm. Some can get this down to very low numbers like 3/month, but 1:5 call and one weekend a month is really standard. For medicine, for surgery, for IR, for DR. Anesthesia definitely not an exception, those preggo girls needing their epidurals and only seem to need them at 2am. Probs wouldn't perseverate about call until you're deciding on a fellowship around PGY2 or 3.
My first post is also very serious. Don't go into surgery, or even IR, if you have other options you would be happy doing. That said, in defense of IR, it is not at all a procedural dumping ground. Those guys do amazing cool **** and they do it better than surgeons can most of the time because they have higher volume and really know the scope of their work.
Edit: To sum up, medicine.
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If you end up loving the OR and not liking any of the other specialties besides surgery, choose surgery.
If you love the OR, hate rounding, and don’t mind CRNA’s, do Gas
If you can live without the OR, hate rounding, and want to be a straight up technician who can’t admit patients, do IR.
If you love the OR, hate rounding, and don’t mind CRNA’s, do Gas
If you can live without the OR, hate rounding, and want to be a straight up technician who can’t admit patients, do IR.