Hello, I hope this is the appropriate forum for this type of question. I am a medical student in my final year. I was diagnosed with a disease called xALD around a year ago after my mother started to show symptoms. For me this means that most likely in the next 10 years, and almost certainly by the time I'm 50 I will start to experience some level of spasticity in my legs. It is likely that from the onset of symptoms I will eventually end up in wheelchair after 12 or so years of progressive degeneration. From what I gather other motor skills and cognition should remain unimpaired.
The question is this. I would like to be able to perform at least some procedural work in the residency of my choosing. I am interested in radiology in general so perhaps I can do some as a diagnostic radiologist as well? Is interventional radiology out of the question? Do you think it would be possible to work in IR until things get bad enough and then switch to diagnostic?
Are the surgical specialties out of the question? What other specialties would enable some procedural work but also be accommodating to a paraplegic later in life?
I apologize for the many questions and if the whole post is inappropriate but I don't know where else to go
