Hi there,
I am happily involved in a long-term relationship since before medical school (just haven't found time to get married) but I was having a conversation about being single in General Surgery with one of my interns. This guy has the looks of Brad Pitt, smarts, and talent. He laments about just not having the time to find a meaningful relationship with a woman of substance because the job just doesn't give you much quantity and quality is difficult to establish in a short time. He is smart enough not to want to settle for the "airheads" that tend to follow him around the hospital but I can see his dilemma.
He has been hitting the "bar scene" with another intern who is also gorgeous but goes through women like I go through surgical gloves. I understand their plight; they work hard all week and on a free Friday or Saturday night, they want to let off some steam and maybe get "laid". This is difficult stuff folks and finding a quality person out there can be rough. Having a job that keeps you busy 80 hours each week can put you into celibacy or dating "Hannah and her five sisters."
If anyone has any suggestions, please post them before as my two single interns are getting pretty difficult to deal with. This has been rough on my service. The ones that are married have wives that are pregnant or given birth in the past year.
njbmd