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Urology is male and female urinary tracts and male reproductive tract. The latter part was more what I was referring to.
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Proctologist anyone?
Started by Kleptobismol
Urology is male and female urinary tracts and male reproductive tract. The latter part was more what I was referring to.
Just my two cents, colorectal surgeons tend to be some of the happiest and most enthusiastic about their specialty doctors I've ever met.
True story. And I've met quite a few of them.
That could mean any number of things.
My dad was telling me a story about when he was an intern back in 1980 that involved a twenty something female Urology resident, 1st in the program and the program director, your typical white dinosaur.
Dinosaur: Now miss, don't you think its a little odd that you want to work with dicks all day?
twentysomething (without missing a beat) No weirder than you sir.
She didnt get much more hell from him for the rest of her residency.
Proctology has been replaced by Colorectal surgery, GI, and general surgery. But for any of you DO applicant we still have (2 i believe) proctology residencies left.....getem' while they are hott! 😀
yep, and at least the ass is supposed to smell like that...
True - for a gen surg subspecialty, the hours are VERY good (rarely any emergencies and the hours are not too bad - contrast this with trauma or transplant surgery.)
Colorectal surgeons also get to really help patients that would die otherwise, because they've failed medical management (refractory Crohn's disease, IBD, etc). And they get long-term followup with their cancer patients, which a lot of surgeons do not get.
Overall, a great specialty.
Male ob/gyns that I've worked with were awesome. Great with patients, skilled at their surgeries, and managed to keep a really level head during OB crises. A lot of them do MFM, which is pays very well.
50% of uro patients are female - women have a lot of UTIs (more than men), and they also need nephrostomy tubes, etc.
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Ooops - sorry! Darn abbreviations!
I like colorectal surgery cuz you can use cool words like anostomosis in regular conversation.
So do vascular surgeons.
I knew it. From all the members in SDN, not one wants to be a proctologist (or whatever its called) as their first choice. I hate being mean but maybe that puts it into the same category as dentistry.
do they get paid to piitb?
From all the members of SDN...who are pre-meds...and haven't done a surgery rotation....
I'd rather do proctology than transplant surgery or trauma surgery. The hours of transplant and trauma are absolutely awful. Unless you ENJOY staying around the hospital until 4 AM hoping that an organ getting flown in from across the country will be viable.
And plastics surgery isn't much better. My friend had to debride a 600 lb. man's bedsores on his plastics rotation. He described the necrotic tissue as looking like "spinach dip."
No, but they can punch a hole in your aorta and fix it.
