How do Cardiac Surgeons do it?

[Medstart108]

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How do cardiac surgery residents get to work at 6am round, go to OR at 8am and not finish till 830pm then round on their patients again and do call 1 in 2 or 1 in 3 and be down? There sounds like no downtime, not sure lunch or dinner is a thing.

I just did a 12+ hr OR day and i'm questioning life choices and irritable as hell. I love the surgery until 7pm, but after that I am bitter at every specialty for having it easier and have very little patience for other people's problems...

 

[ProfMD]

1) Not every day is like that.
2) Watching surgery is horribly boring. It is much different when you are the one doing the surgery.
3) They, and other surgeons working these hours, love what they do.
4) There is a light at the end of the tunnel.

 

[meister]

I don't know. And that's why I'm not a surgeon.

 

[doc05]

good you're still a student. please choose a specialty that is a better fit for you.

 

[Medstart108]

Lol round at 6...that's cute.

Oh wait, you said cardiac surgery...lol you said round on their own patients...that's cute.

I don't get it.. I sense sarcasm but thats it.

 

[Medstart108]

I actually wrote this with real feeling at the time, anyways, is interventional cards a better lifestyle?

Correct me if i'm wrong but from what i've seen both internal medicine and surgery have long hours with surgery having slightly longer hours during residency, but I feel as if surgeons are much busier during the day than medicine residents are. I feel as if on surgery I was mostly running from here to there and the residents regularly missed lunch and were rarely standing still whereas on medicine there typically was at least an hour during the day where they sat around chatting (this was on CCU mind you).

What are people's opinions on this?

I'm like a previous poster in 2010 I love the heart and everything about it, sewing bowels together just didn't seem that interesting to me.

 

[themockjock]

Lol round at 6...that's cute.

Oh wait, you said cardiac surgery...lol you said round on their own patients...that's cute.

Wait... rounding? That's something NPs do, right?

 

[celling]

Thoracic residency is tough, no question about it. Just finished in June. However, there is a light at the end of the tunnel. As for the long days, they can be tough, but it's not every day. However, if you love it, the day's do go by a little quicker.

As for the rounding jokes, I don't know where they come from. I round on every patient at least twice a day.

 

[masaraksh]

Thoracic residency is tough, no question about it. Just finished in June. However, there is a light at the end of the tunnel. As for the long days, they can be tough, but it's not every day. However, if you love it, the day's do go by a little quicker.

As for the rounding jokes, I don't know where they come from. I round on every patient at least twice a day.

Does walking by the morgue count as rounding !?

 

[celling]

Does walking by the morgue count as rounding !?

Must be confusing our outcomes with yours

 

[dr zaius]

Must be confusing our outcomes with yours

Someone better page the burn unit.