Prestige of Different Medical Practices

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i heard its actually like lord of the flies in the hospitals
 
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But seriously OP, why does it matter which specialty has the most prestige? The doctors that everyone looks up to in the hospital are the ones who do their jobs well, regardless of specialty.
 
Only the sense that you look at them in awe, not the sense that you wish you were them. You look at them in awe the same way you look at great Olympic athletes or 12-year-old piano prodigies - they have the capacity to push themselves to devote an absurd and unfathomable amount of time to what they do.

To do it, you have to REALLY love it because there is very little time for family and sleep, and time-consuming hobbies unrelated to neurosurgery are virtually out of the question. And while it may seem glamorous at first, it is truly one of the most humbling of all specialties. Their patients have the worst prognoses.
 
Morzh said:
Only the sense that you look at them in awe, not the sense that you wish you were them. You look at them in awe the same way you look at great Olympic athletes or 12-year-old piano prodigies - they have the capacity to push themselves to devote an absurd and unfathomable amount of time to what they do.

To do it, you have to REALLY love it because there is very little time for family and sleep, and time-consuming hobbies unrelated to neurosurgery are virtually out of the question. And while it may seem glamorous at first, it is truly one of the most humbling of all specialties. Their patients have the worst prognoses.
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Good post. But on the same token, I would imagine it's incredibly rewarding to save a patient from almost certain death. That has to be a damn good feeling and make you feel like a king.
 
MedProdigy said:
Good post. But on the same token, I would imagine it's incredibly rewarding to save a patient from almost certain death. That has to be a damn good feeling and make you feel like a king.
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I'm interested in neurosurg, but you have to know that their outcomes in trauma are generally pretty bad. They pull off some great saves, but a much higher proportion of patients die or suffer severe mental damage.

People do respect guys that put in crazy hours and do their jobs well, which includes other specialties than neurosurgery.

Going into a field for its perceived prestige won't make you happy in the long run or make the long nights of call any easier.
 
DoctwoB said:
I'm interested in neurosurg, but you have to know that their outcomes in trauma are generally pretty bad. They pull off some great saves, but a much higher proportion of patients die or suffer severe mental damage.
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👍 Huge wins and huge losses, and not in equal numbers.

It's not like Grey's Anatomy, if that's what OP is thinking.
 
gettheleadout said:
OP's major is Pre-Med-for-Neurosurgery :meanie:
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Lol what a noob. Mine is pre-med for Anesthesiology. 😎

Guys which has more prestige, Burger King or Taco Bell? Please halp, I need to decide cause I'm getting hungry.
 
Chops369 said:
Lol what a noob. Mine is pre-med for Anesthesiology. 😎

Guys which has more prestige, Burger King or Taco Bell? Please halp, I need to decide cause I'm getting hungry.
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You have your answer
 
who cares dudes, if you want prestige and money, go into finance or something else that will give you more of that with less work
 
Money and Prestige are easily lost or squandered, and neither provides any real lasting happiness. Also, many people lose perspective on reality when pursuing these two, and hurt others in the process.
 
You follow up a thread about how do you get started shadowing, which you apparently haven't done yet at all, with threads about what are the coolest warm-weather MD programs and whether or not NS's the bee's knees. You are putting the proverbial cart a bit before the horse my friend. And you are tempting having your new thread creation license pulled.
 
There's a pre-med at my school that walks around the place boasting his neuro(add in lots of fancy words) logy major, applying only to Harvard and Hopkins, and becoming a neurosurgeon. This doesn't contribute anything to the thread.
 
enTropeeeeeeeee said:
There's a pre-med at my school that walks around the place boasting his neuro(add in lots of fancy words) logy major, applying only to Harvard and Hopkins, and becoming a neurosurgeon. This doesn't contribute anything to the thread.
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It contributes one dose of funny 😀 Applying to only Harvard and Hopkins is a great way to improve your chances at a career in video game design. I'm assuming you just laugh at him every time he does/says anything?
 
round here its cardiology that runs the show, and the CT surgeons. Closely followed by the hospitlaist group. they are gods in my book fo sho.
 
zoner said:
who cares dudes, if you want prestige and money, go into finance or something else that will give you more of that with less work
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I know this has been said a million times, but I'll say it again. There is no job more consistently lucrative than medicine. I know many people my age, and some older, that have finance major / MBAs. None make more than 150K and none work less than 60 hours a week. Many are unemployed. That being said, I would still go into med if it paid minimum wage and I hope that you would to. However, at this point in time it does not.
 
Iapyx said:
I know this has been said a million times, but I'll say it again. There is no job more consistently lucrative than medicine. I know many people my age, and some older, that have finance major / MBAs. None make more than 150K and none work less than 60 hours a week. Many are unemployed. That being said, I would still go into med if it paid minimum wage and I hope that you would to. However, at this point in time it does not.
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Minimum wage though?
 
MedProdigy is climbing the ranks of worst poster on SDN.

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Iapyx said:
I know this has been said a million times, but I'll say it again. There is no job more consistently lucrative than medicine. I know many people my age, and some older, that have finance major / MBAs. None make more than 150K and none work less than 60 hours a week. Many are unemployed. That being said, I would still go into med if it paid minimum wage and I hope that you would to. However, at this point in time it does not.
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Yea, I feel bad for those poor MBAs who only make 140K. They must eat government cheese for dinner every night.
 
There are no gods in the hospital. It takes a team to save a patient.

Although, neurosurgeons do tend to have god complexes, so you may fit right in there.
 
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God = God of the hospital. He chooses who lives and dies. Duhhh.

PS Bobsledders get more tail. Especially Jamaican ones.
 
Iapyx said:
I know this has been said a million times, but I'll say it again. There is no job more consistently lucrative than medicine. I know many people my age, and some older, that have finance major / MBAs. None make more than 150K and none work less than 60 hours a week. Many are unemployed. That being said, I would still go into med if it paid minimum wage and I hope that you would to. However, at this point in time it does not.
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If you'd go to school for 8 years while taking on ~200,000$ of debt so that you could work 80 hours a week for minimum wage you're either stupid or full of crap.
 
eli20 said:
If you'd go to school for 8 years while taking on ~200,000$ of debt so that you could work 80 hours a week for minimum wage you're either stupid or full of crap.
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Well literally speaking, everyone is full of crap.
 
Chops369 said:
Yea, I feel bad for those poor MBAs who only make 140K. They must eat government cheese for dinner every night.
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I assumed the point of my message was pellucid, but let me explain it again. Of the MBAs that I know the highest paid have a maximum salary that is the minimum for those in medicine. These business individuals have worked comparable hours for many years of there career. There are exceptions, but they are rare. Thus, on a consistent basis nothing is more lucrative than medicine.
 
enTropeeeeeeeee said:
There's a pre-med at my school that walks around the place boasting his neuro(add in lots of fancy words) logy major, applying only to Harvard and Hopkins, and becoming a neurosurgeon. This doesn't contribute anything to the thread.
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:laugh: I love this... At least he almost certainly won't become a doctor... :meanie:
eli20 said:
If you'd go to school for 8 years while taking on ~200,000$ of debt so that you could work 80 hours a week for minimum wage you're either stupid or full of crap.
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I think the implication is that the cost of medical education is proportionally reduced. If medicine paid significantly less but medical school cost significantly less, I would still go into medicine.
 
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