If I'm not digging the ICU...

[Mr FancyPants]

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does that mean I'll be a crappy anesthesiologist?

Finishing up my intern year w/2 unit rotations.

Love the procedures and interesting cases. Hate the 6 hours of rounding and micromanagement. Its also seriously depressing (26 y/o previously healthy female with locked in syndrome, ughh...)

Current residents, drop some knowledge on me...

FancyPants

 

[somedumbDO]

does that mean I'll be a crappy anesthesiologist?

Finishing up my intern year w/2 unit rotations.

Love the procedures and interesting cases. Hate the 6 hours of rounding and micromanagement. Its also seriously depressing (26 y/o previously healthy female with locked in syndrome, ughh...)

Current residents, drop some knowledge on me...

FancyPants

yes

 

[psychbender]

No. I do not think that most residents particularly enjoy the ICU, specifically for that reason (rounding).

 

[SleepIsGood]

does that mean I'll be a crappy anesthesiologist?

Finishing up my intern year w/2 unit rotations.

Love the procedures and interesting cases. Hate the 6 hours of rounding and micromanagement. Its also seriously depressing (26 y/o previously healthy female with locked in syndrome, ughh...)

Current residents, drop some knowledge on me...

FancyPants

just means an ICU fellowshp isnt what you want to pursue..

 

[countingdays]

I'd say that hating MICU is the norm.
SICU was better, but even if you don't like SI you could be a fine anesthesiologist.

 

[JonnyG]

Its not like we round in anesthesia. I only like the ICU when I compare it with my floor months. Things get done quicker, people are actually sick, very little social issues. After two months of floors, I almost so the ICU as a godsend

 

[pgg]

The OR is just like the ICU, except there aren't any nurses to get in the way. Or nutrition consults, social work, family DNR/end-of-life dynamics to endure, 45 minute delays to get a pressor infusion started, RTs who gripe when you fiddle with the knobs on "their" ventilators, swallow studies, pulled Dobhoffs, the stink of code browns, 3 AM admission paperwork, accidental extubations, or rounding.

(This is a partial list, obviously.)

The things you probably hate about the ICU aren't an issue in the OR.