It has been extraordinarily hard for me to decide what specialty to choose. I think that is mostly because I can be very indecisive when it comes to huge decisions, like what I want to do with the rest of my LIFE! I like patient care, but don't find it intellectually stimulating. I like path because it is so incredibly fascinating, but there is no patient contact.
Whenever I decide I am going to do something else, like ortho most recently, I always have major doubts (usually when my alarm goes off at 4:15 am for gen surg rotation) and I come back to path. I just feel most comfortable here personality-wise. I have heard over and over to "go with your gestalt." Well, that just what I'm gonna have to do, so I'm going for path!
Now I just have some major backtracking to do since I have an ortho advisor, who I did research with, who thinks I'm going into Ortho. This is gonna take some work, anyone want to break the news to him for me?