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How much surgery do EM docs do?/ other sepecialties
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Do you consider stitching people up to be "surgery"?
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Forensic path. Not 'surgery' in the strictest sense, but you do a TON of cutting daily.
You need to define "surgery" for us.
Family Docs deliver babies and tear up lacerations, put in IUDs, do vesectomies, even repair minor hernias. This completely depends on the program - they do a lot more on the West Coast. The "surgery" (in my sense of the word) that a run of the mill dermatologist does is pretty minimal, unless you do derm surgery fellowship to learn Mohs.
Family Docs deliver babies and tear up lacerations, put in IUDs, do vesectomies, even repair minor hernias. This completely depends on the program - they do a lot more on the West Coast. The "surgery" (in my sense of the word) that a run of the mill dermatologist does is pretty minimal, unless you do derm surgery fellowship to learn Mohs.
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Hey now lets not forget the elusive ED thoracotomy!
LoL.... doesn't happen THAT often.
I hope to do one some day (planning on EM).....Ill let you know how its going to work out...the pt is going to die 🙁 But hey worth a shot.
Take it from the child from a family of EMs, Trauma Surgeons and Ortho Surgeons... the life isn't that lush after 10 years of it.
Do you value your hairline?
Take it from the child from a family of EMs, Trauma Surgeons and Ortho Surgeons... the life isn't that lush after 10 years of it.
Do you value your hairline?
haha the minute I start losing hair im just going to bic it always.
I dont plan on practicing for the rest of my life....medicine=money for other investments 🙂
I dont think any specialty is going to be that great. My pops has been in practice for almost 30 years now as a medical oncologist/heme and HATES every day of it. What a sad career. Sad vs overnights/seekers/adrenaline/everythign that comes with EM....dunno which id rather have.
www.jayparkinsonmd.com
This guy is doing it right.
But in all honesty, I'll probably end up in a surgical sub specialty, kicking and screaming of course. But hey, I'd like to entertain the thought of me doing interventional rads... just for a while longer.
ps. I wish I could bic my head.... too bad I have such an awfully shaped Arnold head.
IR=awesomeness. I would love to do something like that....just have it in me to be gunner enough..we shall see!
Meh, not necessarily. Score 240, do some good research, get a few good letters. You're made in the shade.
Disclaimer: The above mentioned sequence of events may not be that easy.
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ER docs don't do any surgery. They might put in a central line, chest tube or sew up a big lac, but trauma surgeons are all general surgeons.
And dermatologists might call it "dermatologic surgery," but I'd really only consider Mohs surgery to be surgery.
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