If you never did anesthesia...

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To all the Residents/Attending out there... If you never did anesthesia.. What medical field would you of pursued instead, and why? I know there are some hardliners out there that will say Anesthesiology or nothing, but hypothetically speaking.

(If you are wondering why I am asking, its because my med friend got asked this on the interview trail last year and I actually think the answers would be interesting)
 
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RxBoy said:
To all the Residents/Attending out there... If you never did anesthesia.. What medical field would you of pursued instead, and why? I know there are some hardliners out there that will say Anesthesiology or nothing, but hypothetically speaking.

(If you are wondering why I am asking, its because my med friend got asked this on the interview trail last year and I actually think the answers would be interesting)
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TACO BELL MANAGER, DUDE.

MANAGERIAL.

AS IN "I'M THE TACO MANAGER MAN."

AT TACO BELL.

"Huh, Mr. interviewing-me-for-residency-mister academic attending sociopath-asking-another-stupid-question? Did I say something wrong? Dontcha like NACHOS BELLAGRANDE?'
 
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Don't misunderestimate the stress of running a Taco Bell.

You gotta get the portioning right.

You got high school kids going meat, cheese, lettuce, when it's CLEARLY meat, lettuce, cheese.

You gotta slap people upside the head when they drop sour cream or guacamole bombs. That is, they gun the whole squirt of either condiment in a giant clump on either end of the burrito. Proper technique is to slowly go back and forth to ensure even distribution of flavor.

You gotta make sure the damn fools don't overtoast the quesadillas or burn the chalupa shells.

Speaking of shells- it takes R. Lee Ermey-style discipline (see: Full Metal Jacket) to make sure that the lazy mofos don't knowingly crack the taco shells while they fill 'em up and give them out to customers anyway. Cuz, that pisses people off and then some.

A Nachos Bellgrande is not a giant plate of mostly naked chips with a mountain of stuff in the middle. You gotta spread that shiz out (see: guacamole bombs above).

No sir, it is no easy feat running one of these places.

But I'd still rather do it than suffer the hellfire and brimstone of OB/GYN.

Fun Taco Bell Fact: the "ground beef" is only 74% meat. I could tell you about the other 26%, but then I'd have to kill you.
 
Hawaiian Bruin said:
Don't misunderestimate the stress of running a Taco Bell.

You gotta get the portioning right.

You got high school kids going meat, cheese, lettuce, when it's CLEARLY meat, lettuce, cheese.

You gotta slap people upside the head when they drop sour cream or guacamole bombs. That is, they gun the whole squirt of either condiment in a giant clump on either end of the burrito. Proper technique is to slowly go back and forth to ensure even distribution of flavor.

You gotta make sure the damn fools don't overtoast the quesadillas or burn the chalupa shells.

Speaking of shells- it takes R. Lee Ermey-style discipline (see: Full Metal Jacket) to make sure that the lazy mofos don't knowingly crack the taco shells while they fill 'em up and give them out to customers anyway. Cuz, that pisses people off and then some.

A Nachos Bellgrande is not a giant plate of mostly naked chips with a mountain of stuff in the middle. You gotta spread that shiz out (see: guacamole bombs above).

No sir, it is no easy feat running one of these places.

But I'd still rather do it than suffer the hellfire and brimstone of OB/GYN.

Fun Taco Bell Fact: the "ground beef" is only 74% meat. I could tell you about the other 26%, but then I'd have to kill you.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
cummon dude.....lets hear about the 26%....I consider myself a Taco Bell afficiando....
 
Honest answer..probably go into Family Med...anything besides OB/GYN, I would rather work at McDonalds than do that.(Not really)
 
For me everything else was VERY far behind anesthesiology.
I really liked cardiology, but I don't think i would have survived three years of medicine and then three years of fellowship, both of which are super tough. I definitely would have gotten a divorce. but the main thing was, the cardiologist I worked with still worked his butt off as a partner and seemed to hate life.
I thought ER for a second, at first it was kind of fun, but got old very very quickly and now its the last thing i would want to do.
I really like pain, so I considered PMR but after a day with a PMR doc it wasn't for me.

I guess if it wasn't anesthesiology I would probably have suffered through three years of PMR to get to pain or an interventional spine fellowship. But I probably wouldn't have been happy at all.
Thats why Anesthesia is so great...the fellowship options are awesome --pain, cards, peds, ccm... i bet by the time i am done regional will be an accredited fellowship too. lots of options.
 
Pimp. I figured I'm already whoring myself out to the medical profession, so might as well cut out the middle man.
 
If pd asked...pulm...i like the ICU...

But I really wish I would have checked out PMR. My best friend in medical school is doing this and loves it. Especially if you can work with motivated pts... Athletes and war heros to name a few.
 
Leverage said:
If pd asked...pulm...i like the ICU...

But I really wish I would have checked out PMR. My best friend in medical school is doing this and loves it. Especially if you can work with motivated pts... Athletes and war heros to name a few.
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Athletes and war heroes?? How about 1 or 2 of those a year, amidst a sea of devastating spinal cord injury pts with enormous decub ulcers, stroked out/trached/peg'd trauma rehabbers, little ol' gomed-out grannies after their ruptered AAA repair/prolonged ICU course, post-crani neuro rehabbers after their ruptured aneurysms/bleeds..... As one of the Ortho staff likes to say, "If you like sitting around drinking coffee, eating donuts, and talking about bowel movements, PM&R is great, but don't confuse it with anything close to Ortho..."
 
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Hawaiian Bruin said:
Don't misunderestimate the stress of running a Taco Bell.
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First of all... I LOVE the word "misunderestimate"... reminds me of some of the words that I use such as "In the interest of political correctitude..." etc.


Hawaiian Bruin said:
You got high school kids going meat, cheese, lettuce, when it's CLEARLY meat, lettuce, cheese.
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I gotta argue with you on this one. I am afraid that you have NO idea what you are talking about. You lay the meat down, then the cheese and THEN the lettuce. That way the cheese is melted by the hot meat (I can't believe I just said "hot meat" in a post on SDN). :laugh:

Hawaiian Bruin said:
Speaking of shells- it takes R. Lee Ermey-style discipline (see: Full Metal Jacket)
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"Looks like the best part of this taco ran out the crack of it's shell and ended up a brown stain on the wrapper!"

-That's the best I got. Sorry.

:meanie:
 
Professional call of duty 4/gears of war/teamfortress2 player

Bikini model judge

One of those guys that develops new types of donuts

ninja

Monster truck driver

Formula 1 race car driver

water balloon expert

One of the side characters on the jacka$$ team
 
ozzie20 said:
Professional call of duty 4/gears of war/teamfortress2 player

Bikini model judge

One of those guys that develops new types of donuts

ninja

Monster truck driver

Formula 1 race car driver

water balloon expert

One of the side characters on the jacka$$ team
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DOODE, I've got one for ya......fresh piping hot glazed donut with soft serve ice cream filling.....
 
ozzie20 said:
Professional call of duty 4/gears of war/teamfortress2 player

Bikini model judge

One of those guys that develops new types of donuts

ninja

Monster truck driver

Formula 1 race car driver

water balloon expert

One of the side characters on the jacka$$ team
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Guess Jet's got two careers...

-copro
 
radiology.. nobody has the lifestyle of a radiologist beat. except for maybe plastic surgeons in beverly hills doing boob jobs..
 
live audio.

acutally, my secret plan involves a critical care fellowship and 6 months/year locum ICU shifts, then doing sound all summer. 🙂
 
coprolalia said:
Guess Jet's got two careers...

-copro
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YES!!!

and in total RICK FLAIR PERSONA.....

"WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!"

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militarymd said:
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You and me both. The sad thing is I have loved the markets since I was kid. Why I didn't go into that I will never understand. I like actually really like medicine and anesthesiology. But I wonder if I would like wall street more then medicine. Those who read the Wall Street and Gas thread know what I am talking about. My friend at Lehman wants me to advise in their VC bio/med division. Maybe when residencey is done and I am BC I will try it for a year. Who knows.
 
Hockeyguy said:
You and me both. The sad thing is I have loved the markets since I was kid. Why I didn't go into that I will never understand. I like actually really like medicine and anesthesiology. But I wonder if I would like wall street more then medicine. Those who read the Wall Street and Gas thread know what I am talking about. My friend at Lehman wants me to advise in their VC bio/med division. Maybe when residencey is done and I am BC I will try it for a year. Who knows.
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I'd consider that a serious opportunity, Dude.👍
 
Hockeyguy said:
You and me both. The sad thing is I have loved the markets since I was kid. Why I didn't go into that I will never understand. I like actually really like medicine and anesthesiology. But I wonder if I would like wall street more then medicine. Those who read the Wall Street and Gas thread know what I am talking about. My friend at Lehman wants me to advise in their VC bio/med division. Maybe when residencey is done and I am BC I will try it for a year. Who knows.
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I too like investing, and business. But, IMO, it's cool just having it as a hobby. So far, as a newly minted MSIII (time flies..), I'm really liking my clerkship. I like the idea of being a doc in a coupla years and keeping investing as a neat little hobby to balance out my interests and activities.
 
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