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I've started considering anesthesia as a med-student because I really like physio/pharm and I think the option to go the pain route is also quite appealing.
Don't know how to ask this without coming across as a jerk, but a lot of the tone of posters on this forum makes it seem like anesthesiologists wouldn't necessarily be the most fun group of people to be around. Seems like many posts are extremely pessimistic, overly abrasive in relation to politics, extremely concerned with finances considering there are MD's in many fields making less than CRNAs even do, very derogatory towards medicaid patients, etc.
But my real life experience with anesthesiologists so far in med-school as been the complete opposite, they have come across has very caring/compassionate for their patients, very excited about about their profession and maintain a good outlook for the future despite the obvious fact that salaries will decline (along with those in all of medicine).
So are they just putting on a good face for me at school and then coming home and ranting here?
Don't know how to ask this without coming across as a jerk, but a lot of the tone of posters on this forum makes it seem like anesthesiologists wouldn't necessarily be the most fun group of people to be around. Seems like many posts are extremely pessimistic, overly abrasive in relation to politics, extremely concerned with finances considering there are MD's in many fields making less than CRNAs even do, very derogatory towards medicaid patients, etc.
But my real life experience with anesthesiologists so far in med-school as been the complete opposite, they have come across has very caring/compassionate for their patients, very excited about about their profession and maintain a good outlook for the future despite the obvious fact that salaries will decline (along with those in all of medicine).
So are they just putting on a good face for me at school and then coming home and ranting here?