Most "desired" specialty

[bghs11]

If you don't get laid now, you're probably not gonna be getting laid as a doctor either

Not so sure about that one. During one of my interviews, I got a chance to tour the hospital in a long white coat, and it was ridiculous how differently people treated me. Anyone else have a similar experience?

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[n3ur05ur930n]

A group of my friends and I (all guys) were each claiming that our specialties would make us the most "attractive" to the female persuasion. So we decided to put this question to all the ladies out there: factoring in lifestyle, personality, compensation, work hours, etc., which specialty would you most want your boyfriend/husband to be in and why?

Nothing makes me as hot and wet as neurosurg. NOTHING.

 

[ForbiddenComma]

Nothing makes me as hot and wet as neurosurg. NOTHING.

So judging by the poll results, I see this one is going to be a toss-up between...

Dr. Ross
Dr. McDreamy
Dr. Troy
Dr. Jock (ortho)
and... the one with the most money (derm)!


But IM's way down on the list. I KNEW it! Girls are lying when they say Zach Braff is hot!

 

[DrKitty]

Male OB/GYN docs are sexy . They must know how to use their hands for yearly breast massages and things down south

 

[azzarah]

Male OB/GYN docs are sexy . They must know how to use their hands for yearly breast massages and things down south

Eeeewwww, i would have to disagree...no urologists or ob/gyns for me!

 

[azzarah]

Just another reason to pick an ER guy!

Oh YES, ER guys are cute!

 

[karamella]

Is that a problem
Any doctor is terrible enouph to make my life a further desease

 

[kyle_fater]

Come on! Whats hotter than a wife who can give you a DRE?! NOT! hahaha

 

[azzarah]

Come on! Whats hotter than a wife who can give you a DRE?! NOT! hahaha

DRE -->

 

[OctoDoc]

Nothing makes me as hot and wet as neurosurg. NOTHING.

I perform neurosurgery every time I chop up tofu.

 

[OctoDoc]

I'm a pre-med so maybe I shouldn't post here but I really want to know what people have against OBGYN? Every OB-related post I ever read is about how the rotation sucked, etc. and now look at the poll... OBGYN is in ITALICS for god's sake!

OBGYN is in Italics on your computer, because you voted for it!

 

[sacrament]

Not so sure about that one. During one of my interviews, I got a chance to tour the hospital in a long white coat, and it was ridiculous how differently people treated me. Anyone else have a similar experience?

What's amazing is that anybody treated you like anything. I wander around the hospital in a white coat all day and the only "treatment" I ever get is people asking where the elevators are.

Anyway, I look at the girlfriends and wives of the male doctors I know, and that's all the anecdotal evidence I need to prove to myself that being a doctor isn't a chick magnet.

 

[omgwtfbbq?]

i'll take a plastics, if he does reconstructive surgery (no lipo or breast augmentations) and wants to go on medical missions. I always had an adventure fantasy... the two of us... the the wilds of some primitive yet lush land.... fixing facial deformities on little children so their villages wouldn't think them marked by evil... then roaming off into the jungle for some..... well..... private time behind the leaves. Of course, maybe i'd need to have a tropical medicine specialist on the side to treat whatever weird things we'd catch from fooling around in the bushes.....

.... on second thought, I think I'll go with the ENT....

 

[drmota]

i'm a freelance gynecologist.
-mota

 

[8744]

What's amazing is that anybody treated you like anything. I wander around the hospital in a white coat all day and the only "treatment" I ever get is people asking where the elevators are.

Anyway, I look at the girlfriends and wives of the male doctors I know, and that's all the anecdotal evidence I need to prove to myself that being a doctor isn't a chick magnet.

Now come on. My wife is a babe....but to be fair we started dating when I was a Marine.

Never mind.

 

[thesauce]

To the layman/woman, I doubt any of the real competitive residencies will seem that attractive.

Optho: "Optometrist? So... can you get me some contacts for cheap... What? Ophthalmologist? Oh eye doctor? What you can't handle the whole body?"

Derm: "So you don't really save lives do you? You just treat acne."

Rads: "So you take X-rays all day? My cousin went to community college and he does the same thing.. you two should talk"

Ortho: "So you'll be home only once every other week for dinner?"

Most people don't really understand what kind of work doctors do in each specialty. Just say your a doctor and I think you'll be golden.

A friend of mine had that rads situation pulled on him a number of times. It's so funny.

 

[George_Clooney]

I think you should add neurology to that list.

 

[Kimmer]

i think neurosurgeon would definitely win for your lay person. they know what makes the mulah.....c'mon, Dr. Drake Ramorez (friends)...who could resist

Wasn't he an ENT? I remember an episode were Joey's line was "I have devoted my life to head holes". TV how I miss you!

 

[cdql]

nah...he was a neurosurgeon!

 

[OHMAN0125]

If you don't get laid now, you're probably not gonna be getting laid as a doctor either

What do u mean? What if he's a spine surgeon raking in almost a mil' a year? Sadly, "love" and money do sometimes go together....
Look at Bill Gate's wife....lol

 

[NEATOMD]

ER docs are hot, but they aren't as hot as paramedics.

I don't think you've met the paramedics I work around...

Dang, why didn't I stick with the ambulance gig...I just had to become a doc, doh!

 

[SalseraDoctora]

So I am a female med student, and my number one factor would be a guy who is NOT a doctor. I want to be the one in the relationship, saving lives with my super-cool EM job...and no guy is going to take my sunshine. More seriously though...doctors are super-intense, competetive, workaholics (horribly sterotyping there, but you know its true). I have enough of that through myself...I don't need someone adding to that when I go home.

I completely agree. I do not want to marry a doctor. I will be the doctor in this relationship. But if I had to choose, I guess I would pick ER. Which is maybe what I will end up doing myself

 

[8744]

I vote for the Specialty That Dare Not Speak Its Name.

 

[YouDontKnowJack]

I vote for OBgyn, since that's the only thing I'll get without much competition and low step scores.
looks like no one likes that eh.
fortunately, my middle finger is 4 inches long, slender, and silky smooth.

I know 40% of women prefer female obgyns, and like 60% don't care. But would that 40% change their mind if it was a good looking male obgyn?

 

[cdql]

I thought Obgyn was actually very competitive this year due to the new 80 hr work week restriction? Or maybe that was another field im thinking of?

 

[Saluki]

i'll take a plastics, if he does reconstructive surgery (no lipo or breast augmentations) and wants to go on medical missions. I always had an adventure fantasy... the two of us... the the wilds of some primitive yet lush land.... fixing facial deformities on little children so their villages wouldn't think them marked by evil... then roaming off into the jungle for some..... well..... private time behind the leaves. Of course, maybe i'd need to have a tropical medicine specialist on the side to treat whatever weird things we'd catch from fooling around in the bushes.....

I've actually thought about this before.... A guy who fixes cleft palates in Africa is so sexy

 

[DW3843]

I hated my surgery rotation for sure, but I liked the surgeon's personality the best & I thought they were manly men. Chicks dig scrubs too.

I will have to join this silly little poll and agree with the men in uniform thing. Chicks do, indeed, seem to dig scrubs.

I'll also add that EM seems to have a lot of sex appeal. Other fields are good but for various reasons, and of course it definitely depends on who is judging the sexiness.

I would say EM, plastics (ENT or general), and derm deserve the high ranked positions. But really, any specialty that is bringing home the bacon is going to be attractive.

A good rule of thumb might be how excited people are to fire off tons of questions to the [fill in the specialty] doctor at a cocktail party or dinner. The general public just loves to hear about exciting and crazy experiences (things that we eventually consider routine and a bit dull)...however, I doubt the lonely pathologist will be the life of the party when talking about the really cool stuff he got to look at under the microscope at work.

 

[DarksideAllstar]

however, I doubt the lonely pathologist will be the life of the party when talking about the really cool stuff he got to look at under the microscope at work.

You falied to remember that we get the endless CSI-type questions (even though most of us dont do forensics, we are required to do a rotation) from the lay person, so yeah, I do get plenty of questions at "the party".

 

[DW3843]

You falied to remember that we get the endless CSI-type questions (even though most of us dont do forensics, we are required to do a rotation) from the lay person, so yeah, I do get plenty of questions at "the party".

good point....completely forgot about that.

 

[Saluki]

Nevermind

 

[happydays]

Nevermind

Yes.

What's the best part of being married to a plastic surgeon? What's the worst?
Henry Windermere, Windsor, California

The best part of being married to a plastic surgeon is, of course, the easy access to cosmetic surgery!

http://www.eonline.com/On/Dr90210/Ask/050301.html

 

[bghs11]

That's true, I never would have thought of Pathologists being the life of any party, but the whole CSI thing definitely puts a new spin on things.

 

[jocg27]

It's Peds, guaranteed, with EM also very high up there.

I'm basing this on people outside of medicine, because personally I don't want to date anyone in medicine...

1. You have to keep it recognizable - the point's already been made that the specialists we consider huge studs often don't seem all that impressive to people outside medicine - derm, rads, ophtho etc...People don't know what they do, don't know what they make, nor do they usually care about our own medical hierarchies. I think most people in the country would be VERY surprised to learn which specialties are most competitive to get into.

2. Everyone knows surgeons are jerks.

3. I would also argue that money isn't as big an issue as you'd think. As much as we worry about it, all doctors, primary care included, do actually make a lot of money. Generalists do still make way more than any national average, and probably way more any the random average woman they happen to be flirting with. 150k still sounds awfully impressive to a lot of people, especially those who are not doctors.

4. And women just do like guys who like kids. If you pick me a random woman out of a bar and gave me just 10 minutes, I'd take my chances with peds over just about anything.

Peds EM, I suppose you could make a woman orgasm by looking at her and saying "booya."

 

[SanDiegoSOD]

I think EM is the obvious choice. It's been glamorized by TV; everyone knows that Emergency Physicians save lives. Plus they make $200k+ while working 36 hours/week - how can you beat that?

 

[bghs11]

Very good point.

 

[somemaybedoc]

What about trauma surgery? Seems like the action hero version of a doctor

 

[Dr Who]

I'm going to have to go with Psychiatry here....

...c'mon, who can resist a Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting

in fact, i'm going into it for the chics...maybe child and adolescent

Actually his character was a psychologist not a psychiatrist.

 

[YouDontKnowJack]

Male OB/GYN docs are sexy . They must know how to use their hands for yearly breast massages and things down south

i see this is a pretty old thread.

but

i'm glad you think that way about male obgyns. i think i'll be applying for it. i got just the right fingers for the job. long, slender, yet strong.

how do you ladies like the obgyns with fat pudgy fingers?

 

[t33sg1rl]

It's Peds, guaranteed, with EM also very high up there.

I'm basing this on people outside of medicine, because personally I don't want to date anyone in medicine...

1. You have to keep it recognizable - the point's already been made that the specialists we consider huge studs often don't seem all that impressive to people outside medicine - derm, rads, ophtho etc...People don't know what they do, don't know what they make, nor do they usually care about our own medical hierarchies. I think most people in the country would be VERY surprised to learn which specialties are most competitive to get into.

2. Everyone knows surgeons are jerks.

3. I would also argue that money isn't as big an issue as you'd think. As much as we worry about it, all doctors, primary care included, do actually make a lot of money. Generalists do still make way more than any national average, and probably way more any the random average woman they happen to be flirting with. 150k still sounds awfully impressive to a lot of people, especially those who are not doctors.

4. And women just do like guys who like kids. If you pick me a random woman out of a bar and gave me just 10 minutes, I'd take my chances with peds over just about anything.

Peds EM, I suppose you could make a woman orgasm by looking at her and saying "booya."

I agree 100%... you should probably add Family Practice, though, which is most lay-women's idea of a "real" doctor. What a woman sees when a man is a pediatrician or FP is a man who makes excellent money, but also gave up the chance to make ridiculous money because of his intense love of children and desire to help people... women may want to hook up with neurosurgeons, but family docs are the marriage material.

 

[little_late_MD]

i see this is a pretty old thread.

but

i'm glad you think that way about male obgyns. i think i'll be applying for it. i got just the right fingers for the job. long, slender, yet strong.

how do you ladies like the obgyns with fat pudgy fingers?

While I'm not a woman, I am still very frightened by this statement.

 

[Dr Who]

Hey I didnt see proctology on the poll!

 

[dron000]

What's amazing is that anybody treated you like anything. I wander around the hospital in a white coat all day and the only "treatment" I ever get is people asking where the elevators are.

Anyway, I look at the girlfriends and wives of the male doctors I know, and that's all the anecdotal evidence I need to prove to myself that being a doctor isn't a chick magnet.

what is your sample size?? and how do you know that those doctors just weren't interested in hot wives(bill gates' wife isn't hot...)? And may be all the doctors that you know are in low-paying specialties or got married before they became doctors and did not know how to properly advertise their potential.

 

[dron000]

It's Peds, guaranteed, with EM also very high up there.

I'm basing this on people outside of medicine, because personally I don't want to date anyone in medicine...

1. You have to keep it recognizable - the point's already been made that the specialists we consider huge studs often don't seem all that impressive to people outside medicine - derm, rads, ophtho etc...People don't know what they do, don't know what they make, nor do they usually care about our own medical hierarchies. I think most people in the country would be VERY surprised to learn which specialties are most competitive to get into.

2. Everyone knows surgeons are jerks.

3. I would also argue that money isn't as big an issue as you'd think. As much as we worry about it, all doctors, primary care included, do actually make a lot of money. Generalists do still make way more than any national average, and probably way more any the random average woman they happen to be flirting with. 150k still sounds awfully impressive to a lot of people, especially those who are not doctors.

4. And women just do like guys who like kids. If you pick me a random woman out of a bar and gave me just 10 minutes, I'd take my chances with peds over just about anything.

Peds EM, I suppose you could make a woman orgasm by looking at her and saying "booya."

1) your whole argument may be dismissed just because you'll probably find a wife before you're an actual practicing doctor. if you try to impress someone in med school or in residency, you'll just have to charm them and make them believe how great you will be one day. but if this is not the case, then they will know about the medical hierarchy once they actually start dating you.

2) never heard of that. surgeons are seen as more manly. and whether you're a jerk or not has nothing to do with your profession(excepting car salesmen). the only way an ER doc might be seen as cool is if people confuse him with a surgeon.
3) yeah 150k is impressive in some bar in the middle of nowhere. i think if you want to project an image of someone who drives luxury cars, owns a luxury house, and a yacht, you better make 5 times that much even in a provincial town like Dallas. even lawyers make >150k/yr and women are not impressed if you're a lawyer.
4) if it came to that, women would prefer Peds Surgeons. but in reality women probably want someone who can make a lot of money and spent a lot of time with their kids. So that would be a dermatologist or radiologist.

 

[dron000]

I agree 100%... you should probably add Family Practice, though, which is most lay-women's idea of a "real" doctor. What a woman sees when a man is a pediatrician or FP is a man who makes excellent money, but also gave up the chance to make ridiculous money because of his intense love of children and desire to help people... women may want to hook up with neurosurgeons, but family docs are the marriage material.

hahaha. real doctor=one who fixes broken limbs and removes appendices from sickly children.

 

[xSTALLiONx]

What's amazing is that anybody treated you like anything. I wander around the hospital in a white coat all day and the only "treatment" I ever get is people asking where the elevators are.

Anyway, I look at the girlfriends and wives of the male doctors I know, and that's all the anecdotal evidence I need to prove to myself that being a doctor isn't a chick magnet.

Definately disappointed in the wives and girlfriends of almost any doctor I've met. Most probably meet them in medical school though where 95% of the women are fugly. I figured I wanted to be a pro soccer player in Europe but after finding my mrs.. I'll let the other boys play.. and I'll just be an MD. I think that lad, Beckham, picked out quite a little treat for himself though. If anyone still wants, quit medicine, become pro soccer player, and be a winner.. Then let the other boys play and come back to medicine to feel like you're contributing..

I don't know why people even try to screw around with beauty and try the eliteist attitude of Brains over Beauty.. The simple equation is..

Beauty > Brains
Personality > Eliteism

 

[classof2011]

It feels sooooo good to get away from the immature premed thred......You guys are convincing me that med students do maintain great personalities (and sense of humors) in med-school......Great People...I cant wait!


But if I had to pick in sexiness, ortho (AKA the frat) would get it.....Everygirl, no matter how much she denies it loves a masculine, assertive, confident, meatheaded, musclebound (often), jerk (as long as he's not a jerk to her...right LAdies?)

But seriously, I think its the loud assertiveness of any physician who calls the shots and does it proudly that wins the hearts of many ladies (and patients)

 

[cfdavid]

I think if you tell a girl you are an ED physician, you'll be in like flint. Most lay people have this romantic image of EP's saving Timmy's leg after being hit by a drunk driver or delivering babies in the taxi cab in the ambulance bay. To her you are the navy seal/special forces person of the medical world.

Actually, she'll probably think you specialize in Erectile Dysfunction...

 

[bghs11]

Hey I didnt see proctology on the poll!

My bad, I'll include that in the next one!

 

[EM_Rebuilder]

To the layman/woman, I doubt any of the real competitive residencies will seem that attractive.

Optho: "Optometrist? So... can you get me some contacts for cheap... What? Ophthalmologist? Oh eye doctor? What you can't handle the whole body?"

Derm: "So you don't really save lives do you? You just treat acne."

Rads: "So you take X-rays all day? My cousin went to community college and he does the same thing.. you two should talk"

Ortho: "So you'll be home only once every other week for dinner?"

Most people don't really understand what kind of work doctors do in each specialty. Just say your a doctor and I think you'll be golden.

Oh, your an Emergency Medicine doctor? Wow thats cool, that means you see all that crazy stuff just like I see on ER. Heres my number, I bet your adventourous. Call me sometime.

Git R Done!

 

[mave]

I said Derm - great hours and great pay.