Hi everybody,
I was always interested in the "surgery field" of medicine and neurosurgery was my top choiche. However, I cannot deny that the lifestyle of a neurosurgeon is something that would not give me the possibility to spend time for my family and for myself(I have other interests outside medicine).
So I came up with the idea tha ortho and anesthesiology could be two good compromises.
I'd like you to share your personal experience(no sugar coating please, I'd rather a brutal reality than a good illusion) about these three fields. I think there are many myths about the topic (i.g. neurosurgeons work 16 hours daily and have time only to sleep) and I'd like you to talk about FACTS:
1) Lifestyle (of course every residency is tough and demanding more or less, so the focus is about the post-residency lifestyle)
2) salaries
3) future developements
4) competition (usmle scores, people trying to apply for that residency, so on...)
5) issues (insurances, anything that comes into play..)
Thanks to everyone responding in advance
I was always interested in the "surgery field" of medicine and neurosurgery was my top choiche. However, I cannot deny that the lifestyle of a neurosurgeon is something that would not give me the possibility to spend time for my family and for myself(I have other interests outside medicine).
So I came up with the idea tha ortho and anesthesiology could be two good compromises.
I'd like you to share your personal experience(no sugar coating please, I'd rather a brutal reality than a good illusion) about these three fields. I think there are many myths about the topic (i.g. neurosurgeons work 16 hours daily and have time only to sleep) and I'd like you to talk about FACTS:
1) Lifestyle (of course every residency is tough and demanding more or less, so the focus is about the post-residency lifestyle)
2) salaries
3) future developements
4) competition (usmle scores, people trying to apply for that residency, so on...)
5) issues (insurances, anything that comes into play..)
Thanks to everyone responding in advance
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