Colorblind physicians, how has this affected your job?

[SunshineCoast]

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I'm currently an MS2 and I'm slightly red-green colorblind. I have a few questions to other practicing physicians who are also colorblind:

1. What kind of colorblindness do you have?
2. What's your specialty?
3. Has your colorblindness affected your ability to do your job?

 

[ACSurgeon]

I'm currently an MS2 and I'm slightly red-green colorblind. I have a few questions to other practicing physicians who are also colorblind:

1. What kind of colorblindness do you have?
2. What's your specialty?
3. Has your colorblindness affected your ability to do your job?

One of my trauma surgery attendings was red-green color blind. He kind of needed the resident to tell him if something was bile or blood. He’s still able to do his job well.

 

[2010houston]

Anesthesiology
Red-green
Not at all except on a few random items that I can’t tell if they’re charged or not (amber vs green lights) - batteries and what not.
I think pathology maybe would be an issue, though I’m sure there are colorblind pathologists

 

[Matthew9Thirtyfive]

Anesthesiology
Red-green
Not at all except on a few random items that I can’t tell if they’re charged or not (amber vs green lights) - batteries and what not.
I think pathology maybe would be an issue, though I’m sure there are colorblind pathologists

I know a colorblind pathologist.

I'm not sure why people are laughing at this. I'm serious. He's a good pathologist too, from what his colleagues say.

 

[deleted889094]

I know a one-eyed colorblind neurosurgeon, actually.

 

[mvenus929]

One of my colleagues is color-blind (I'm Peds Endo). He kindly asks me to put colored charts in as blue-yellow instead of red-green, but otherwise we don't really notice.

 

[BunnyMan17]

I'm red-green (failed the first couple color tests at my military physical before they found one I could pass), MS4 applying internal medicine. No issues thus far, although if someone asks for the "red/green thing", I make sure to confirm it's the one they want. If I run into a color issue more than once with the same resident/attending, I'll mention something along the lines of "I'm not great at seeing colors" so they at least think I'm not a complete idiot.