I thank god everyday I didn't choose IM

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I knew I loved radiology on my first day of a radiology elective. And now going into 4th month of my prelim medicine year I thank god daily that I didn't choose IM. I now understand why MCAT has a reading comprehension section: interns have to quickly read previous H&P's, and other documentations and summarize them to present to the attendings so they don't have to read them. What kind of a bs is that? It's such a waste of time. Medicine in itself is an intellectually interesting field. Yet until one becomes an attending I feel like residents do b.s. work. Half of senior residents I've worked with are nervous rats and come call days they turn into moody, tense....Jekyll and Hyde like. It's just really weird. It's such a stressful specialty but for the wrong reasons.

I can't wait to start my radiology residency.🙂

 

[shark2000]

I knew I loved radiology on my first day of a radiology elective. And now going into 4th month of my prelim medicine year I thank god daily that I didn't choose IM. I now understand why MCAT has a reading comprehension section: interns have to quickly read previous H&P's, and other documentations and summarize them to present to the attendings so they don't have to read them. What kind of a bs is that? It's such a waste of time. Medicine in itself is an intellectually interesting field. Yet until one becomes an attending I feel like residents do b.s. work. Half of senior residents I've worked with are nervous rats and come call days they turn into moody, tense....Jekyll and Hyde like. It's just really weird. It's such a stressful specialty but for the wrong reasons.

I can't wait to start my radiology residency.🙂

Radiology is great, but not as great as you picture.

I always said that radiology is better than most other medical specialties, but it is not also the heaven you think.

The major problem with medical systems is the emphasize on volume. In radiology is reading 150 studies and in medicine is seeing 40 patients.
Each case is interesting the first 100 times you see. After that it will be the same BS, you just want to get it done and go home.

Medicine has lost a lot of its intellectualism. Look at all these guidelines out there. We are not creators, we are consumers of products.

Don't want to discourage you, but seek enjoyment and excitement out of medicine. Medicine will be a just a job sooner or later. You will find out that this was not what you thought at the age of 20. The only important thing, will be to get the job done, take the money home and have fun with family.

 

[Browser]

Old man shark over here....

Radiology is the ****!

 

[boanssi]

Radiology is great, but not as great as you picture.

I always said that radiology is better than most other medical specialties, but it is not also the heaven you think.

The major problem with medical systems is the emphasize on volume. In radiology is reading 150 studies and in medicine is seeing 40 patients.
Each case is interesting the first 100 times you see. After that it will be the same BS, you just want to get it done and go home.

Medicine has lost a lot of its intellectualism. Look at all these guidelines out there. We are not creators, we are consumers of products.

Don't want to discourage you, but seek enjoyment and excitement out of medicine. Medicine will be a just a job sooner or later. You will find out that this was not what you thought at the age of 20. The only important thing, will be to get the job done, take the money home and have fun with family.

That's depressing.
Radiology sounds like a intelectually stimulating specialty since you use a broad range of technologies (which are always evolving) and see pathologies of every organ system.

 

[Dr. USMLE]

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[shark2000]

That's depressing.
Radiology sounds like a intelectually stimulating specialty since you use a broad range of technologies (which are always evolving) and see pathologies of every organ system.

Your statement has its own application for interview day for residency.

Sometimes I laugh when I remember my opinion about medicine during college and my opinion about radiology during medical school.
Radiology is better than most of medicine.
Nothing is intellectually stimulating in community practice setting. Don't forget that 98% of patients have 3-4 diseases in each category. After you do it for 1000 times, it will be a damn mundane routine. It can be reading MRI, can be reading XR , can be stroke or MI or can be appendectomy.

Maturation steps:
1- In college: wow I will go to med school. It is great.
2- MS2: OMG, Medicine is not as interesting as I thought. But, I will start my clinical rotations soon. It is great. Nothing beats patient contact.
3- MS3: mmm, these patients are different from what I thought. I feel miserable. Patient contact is not what I thought.
4- MS4: Let's go for radiology. It is awesome.
5- Intern, R1 and R2: I was right. Radiology rocks. It is great.
6- R4: Radiology is not as interesting as before. May be fellowship is better as I will be more focused.
7- New Attending in pp: This job is crap. Interesting pathology belonged to fellowship. I have to read 150 studies. I even do not have time to think about them.
8- Attending in pp: This job is OK. It is not good, but at least pays the bills. Also it may be better than Dr. Smith.

The truth is the level of satisfaction among doctors is less than average comparable groups.

 

[C5toC9]

Wow that was depressing, but probably true

 

[ar2388]

some of us also do not want to do private practivce...

 

[grayscaleart]

agree, haha, intern here, just finished my radiology elective month and it was awesome. now back in medicine, which sucks, unless you're allergy/immunology, interventional cards, or GI (now i see why these subspecialties are competitive, they're pretty fun jobs)

 

[Asp]

Why do people in medicine care so much?

That's what gets me. As someone else put it, the passion for mundane details is absurd.