Best Specialty for Laptop users

[Techmonkey]

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Having decided that 8 hour ward rounds are not for me, which specialty would give me the most time to open my laptop and manage my investment portfolio, read some journals and watch my bittorrents?

Am thinking of anaesthesia since it seems to be the line with the most spare time. Anyone have a better suggestion?

 

[outofhere]

Hmm, retirement?

 

[EctopicFetus]

You are kidding.. You better have great grades and go do Derm and run some clinic for 30 hours a week.

In medicine more work usually means more money...(well this is field dependent)

 

[Painter1]

Having decided that 8 hour ward rounds are not for me, which specialty would give me the most time to open my laptop and manage my investment portfolio, read some journals and watch my bittorrents?

Am thinking of anaesthesia since it seems to be the line with the most spare time. Anyone have a better suggestion?

hmmm . . . . seems like anesthesia is the field for you. you'll hear differently from anesthesia people themselfs talking about you have to love the field and that you really do alot of work blah blah blah blah . . . . .

 

[JackBauERfan]

Having decided that 8 hour ward rounds are not for me, which specialty would give me the most time to open my laptop and manage my investment portfolio, read some journals and watch my bittorrents?

Am thinking of anaesthesia since it seems to be the line with the most spare time. Anyone have a better suggestion?

hands down radiology. Those guys always have nice laptops and are working a lot, but its reading the films and then you can check in on your stocks every now and then.

anesthesiology might give you free time too, but I think thats going to be very case dependent, whereas in radiology you can pretty much take a break from films anytime, except the emergency reads from trauma surg and em haha.

 

[Jocomama]

It depends on what year in Medical School you are at.
If you are that interested in business, investments and laptop use, especially if you are tech savvy, then I would NOT pursue a residency.
Or at a minimum, do 1-2 years of rotating so you can complete your USMLE III.
Financially you can exceed by spending 2 years in business, then going to a top-tier MBA program. I would suggest applying to USB, CSFB or similar IB firms, and specializing in health care matters. You can also get in at entry level in larger consulting firms.

If you are dead-set on residency, then consider ER: you will have several days off inbetween your days on where you can focus on your investments.
If you want a more regular schedule, and have the grades, etc, then Derm or Ophtho. Radiology and Anesthesia will not allow you to be independent: you are hospital based.
Good Luck

Having decided that 8 hour ward rounds are not for me, which specialty would give me the most time to open my laptop and manage my investment portfolio, read some journals and watch my bittorrents?

Am thinking of anaesthesia since it seems to be the line with the most spare time. Anyone have a better suggestion?

 

[Techmonkey]

It depends on what year in Medical School you are at.
If you are that interested in business, investments and laptop use, especially if you are tech savvy, then I would NOT pursue a residency.
Or at a minimum, do 1-2 years of rotating so you can complete your USMLE III.
Financially you can exceed by spending 2 years in business, then going to a top-tier MBA program. I would suggest applying to USB, CSFB or similar IB firms, and specializing in health care matters. You can also get in at entry level in larger consulting firms.

If you are dead-set on residency, then consider ER: you will have several days off inbetween your days on where you can focus on your investments.
If you want a more regular schedule, and have the grades, etc, then Derm or Ophtho. Radiology and Anesthesia will not allow you to be independent: you are hospital based.
Good Luck

In reference to your first sentence my pre-med background was actually electronic engineering with a masters in finance coincidentally. Isn't it odd as to how the medics now all know what USB, CSFB and IB stand for?

 

[cdql]

Having decided that 8 hour ward rounds are not for me, which specialty would give me the most time to open my laptop and manage my investment portfolio, read some journals and watch my bittorrents?

Am thinking of anaesthesia since it seems to be the line with the most spare time. Anyone have a better suggestion?

a) Businessman
b) Freelance Writer
c) Porn Downloader

 

[G'ville Nole]

a) Businessman
b) Freelance Writer
c) Porn Downloader

I thought c) was just a hobby. You mean I can get paid for it?

😎

 

[Firebird]

Why be a doctor if all you really want to do is play on your computer? Why not go for a job where that's the main focus?

 

[Jocomama]

I only know it based on 7 yrs in banking inbetween residency.
Based upon your masters in finance, if you really have "hands-on" business, you should really just get enough for USMLE III, and get into health care consulting. OR at minimum 3 yrs of Family, Internal or ER.
I think ER. You can then do Locum Tenums at your convenience, and do the investing, laptop, create a medical company, etc.

I still love business, and am active with investments, private equity, real estate, etc/. How else do you think I survived on returning to a fellows' salary after giving up Mortgage Banking?

I proved to myself that $ will not buy my happiness. Less is more.

In reference to your first sentence my pre-med background was actually electronic engineering with a masters in finance coincidentally. Isn't it odd as to how the medics now all know what USB, CSFB and IB stand for?

 

[Hurricane]

Having decided that 8 hour ward rounds are not for me, which specialty would give me the most time to open my laptop and manage my investment portfolio, read some journals and watch my bittorrents?

Am thinking of anaesthesia since it seems to be the line with the most spare time. Anyone have a better suggestion?

Only if they have wireless internet in the OR.

 

[GammaRay]

hands down radiology. Those guys always have nice laptops and are working a lot, but its reading the films and then you can check in on your stocks every now and then.

I agree. I'm going into radiology. I've done a couple of rads electives where I get to do all the prelim reads. On both rotations, I was constantly on the internet between reads (without decreasing productivity). And, yes, some of that time was spent look at investments.