If not anesthesia, where should students who dislike clinic/patient contact go?
Might want to consider pathology or more likely a different career.
I frown when anesthesia is being described as being antisocial. While yes I may not wish to go as far as psychiatrists in terms of patient discourse, I am not a mechanic who is merely "working" on a car either. In fact I would argue that those of us that are affable and have good interpersonal skills make the patient at ease faster in our brief encounters and thus improve their experience. Not important you say? ... just ask your local administrator who signs most of our checks what they think of Press Ganey scores. Like it or not, they are here to stay so best start working on them social skills.