Personalities of Different Physicians??

[Scully9494]

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Just wondering, but for physicians in different specialties, what are their typical personalities, interests etc? Are the common stereotypes true (such as neurologists are brainy and introverted; cardiologists and surgeons only choose that discipline for the money) etc? thanks for your opinions!

I'm in pre-med by the way, and it seems like even though I'm a LONG way off from choosing a residency, I like to have a plan, and I truly cant decide what I'd enjoy most or what I'd be best at...


thanks a bunch!!!

 

[filter07]

Just wondering, but for physicians in different specialties, what are their typical personalities, interests etc? Are the common stereotypes true (such as neurologists are brainy and introverted; cardiologists and surgeons only choose that discipline for the money) etc? thanks for your opinions!

I'm in pre-med by the way, and it seems like even though I'm a LONG way off from choosing a residency, I like to have a plan, and I truly cant decide what I'd enjoy most or what I'd be best at...


thanks a bunch!!!

Great question. Are you sure you want to do medicine? The stereotype in medicine is:
hyper competitive nerds who spend friday nights in the library mindlessly memorizing everything they can and if they get anything less than 100% they complain and appeal the professor for every point possible, are hopelessly one-dimensional and only care about stroking his/her own ego rather than helping humanity or learning any field in great depth.

And it's all true.

 

[smq123]

Just wondering, but for physicians in different specialties, what are their typical personalities, interests etc? Are the common stereotypes true (such as neurologists are brainy and introverted; cardiologists and surgeons only choose that discipline for the money) etc? thanks for your opinions!

I'm in pre-med by the way, and it seems like even though I'm a LONG way off from choosing a residency, I like to have a plan, and I truly cant decide what I'd enjoy most or what I'd be best at...

- The first step of your plan should involve getting into medical school and finishing it successfully. That's more important to you right now than picking a residency.

- I'm not sure how you're expecting a forum full of total strangers will help you decide what YOU enjoy most or what YOU would be best at. Particularly when you're soliciting advice from some of the aforementioned "money-grubbing" cardiologists and surgeons. Just as an FYI - people tend not to want to be helpful when you've just insulted their profession and life's work. 😉

The advice is generally going to be: shadow and see what interests you about medicine >> get into medical school >> do 3rd year and see what you enjoyed the most >> apply for residency. That's the sequence that most people tend to follow.

 

[michaelrack]

cardiologists and surgeons only choose that discipline for the money) !!!

General surgeons don't make a huge amount of money, especially if you calculate it on a per hour basis.

 

[deleted87716]

All generalizations are false. Including this one. - Mark Twain

 

[yaah]

I've pretty much found that if you look hard enough, you can find someone who fits your stereotype of what a surgeon, for example, should "act like." Of course, then you find out that that person is not actually a surgeon. But everyone is an individual, for everyone who fits the stereotype there are dozens of others who are not. There are social pathologists, misfit pediatricians, ugly dermatologists, and kind surgeons.

 

[GreenT]

The one thing I have figured out for sure is that surgeons walk fast. I remember as a med student having to jog to keep up with my surgery team as they walked to morning didactics.

 

[Dejavu]

If you want to work with a "generally" nice group of people and would enjoy playing "middle linebacker" on a football team (ie watching a play develop and reacting to events), then anesthesiology is for you.

If you want to work with "generally" crabby people, want to do a hard residency, but would rather have a set play in mind (quarterback) then surgery is for you.

Anesthesia is often compared to piloting, but this football analogy works a lot of the time as well. Or so it seems to me, after a long time being on the job.

I know, I know, not all surgeons are d*cks. I apologize to the nice ones ahead of time. Just go to a surgical M&M conference and watch the trainees get ripped up. That doesn't happen at anesthesia M&Ms. I'm just saying.

 

[Old_Mil]

I'm in pre-med by the way, and it seems like even though I'm a LONG way off from choosing a residency...

You are a long way off from choosing a residency. However, as a pre-med you're at the best possible point in your training...the point at which you can decide NOT to apply to medical school, NOT to run up $200,000 in debt, NOT to begin the great life sucking journey you are contemplating...and simply walk away scot free.