QofQuimica
Seriously, dude, I think you're overreacting....
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For those of you who are fourth years, residents, and attendings, do you consider yourself to be a people-person? Feel free to define "people-person" however you like, because I'm not totally sure what it means myself. My interpretation is that a people-person is supposed to be someone who enjoys interacting with patients. Or maybe it means being an extrovert. Regardless of how you see yourself, do you feel like your job involves much patient interaction and/or requires being an extrovert? Somehow, a lot of IM folks seem to have the impression that an anesthesiologist wouldn't be a people-person. I think it's analogous to the people who think that researchers don't need to have people skills since they're shut up in a lab, which is completely untrue!