I don't hate derm. I find it boring. If you like it, great. But I'm wondering how many people say they love derm or have an active interest in it while passing a lie detector test. In the end: I'm mocking not the specialty, but the allocation of bright people into these specialties instead of the ones our system is saying we need more of.
It would be hilarious if surgeons were normal people who didn't live to piss away the only life they'll ever get.
You'd probably find it less hilarious when [emergent need for surgical procedure at inconvenient time] happens. Not everyone is made as tragically miserable as you are by medicine.
World needs ditch diggers and scalpel jockeys, I suppose.
A lot more than it needs M1s trash talking specialties they don't have any experience with.
This really takes the cake for most pointless post of the year. Who cares? Do you really think anyone gives a damn about whether you were an officer in some silly club when it comes time to apply for residency? It's a minor footnote below like 19 other things, hairs usually don't get split that far.
I'd hardly call being a surgeon pissing your life away. It's a job of great importance and great responsibility- you can't go into it if you aren't willing to make some sacrifices in your personal life, because surgery takes a great deal of time to both master and maintain proficiency, and we can only train a finite number of surgeons per year. If I'm picking a surgeon for myself or my family, I don't want the guy who works 9-5 and golfs 12 weeks a year, I want the guy who's clocking procedures 60 hours a week.
I don't need to experience slavery to know that it sucks.
Med school isn't hard, it's just annoying, miserable, and inane. Perpetually cramming 10 pounds of **** in a 5 pound bag -- that's all it is.
And did I say I could do their job? No. Did I say derm complaints don't exist? No.
Yup. Don't hate the player. Hate the game. I don't hate either since it doesn't impact my decision to do surgery 😛
So you're mad bc 9-5 hours would only let you do 1 case a day, while Derm sees patient after patient after patient bc it's an inherently outpatient specialty?
Wait, so you're pissed off that bright people are heading into specialties that you feel our system does not need and should go into specialties that YOU believe the system needs. (And I'm sure you believe that our system needs more surgeons). Funny, bc our system needs actually more general surgeons (not surgical subspecialists) but as a whole, your surgery brethern are subspecializing and not doing general surgery. Why is that?
Not exactly. The reimbursement scheme is set for medical services beforehand. The way Kaustikos and others are make it seem is that a bunch of nefarious dermatologists came together so that Dermatology as a whole benefits. Not even close to being true. Also residency positions are funded by the govt. The govt. has decided that it doesn't need too many dermatologists, but need more General IM docs, Peds docs, etc.
Except millenial medical students don't care as much for paycheck when it comes to driving specialty choice. They aren't the type to put their nose to the grindstone for decades at a time. They want work-life balance, at a time when Obamacare will be mandating that they see even more patients (for less reimbursement).
I'm not mad. Where did I say I was? Oh, right, never. Give me a break. You're twisting everything I say because I'm not a derm nutswinger who's calling out certain people who apply for it. It's the same people who apply to anesthesia for the lifestyle. I'm not saying lifestyle isn't important but if that's your number one priority, you've got another thing coming. And, again, I'm not saying everyone is like that. But don't sit here and tell me everyone applying is doing it because they give two ****s about derm.
No. I'm saying congrats to derm for creating a physician lifestyle and compensation that's sane. Along with rads, anesthesia, etc. They've managed to create the opportunity and the smartest are taking advantage of it. Do I fault them? No. But the joke is there. It answers the question of why people aren't going into primary care or "specialties in demand".
