specialty choice thread: IM vs rads

[VA Hopeful Dr]

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Yea I gotta say, if I had any doubts at all about missing patient interaction, my PGY-1 medicine year has dispelled them. May be dependent on setting since I'm in a rough city with a terrible average health literacy/adherence and tons of social needs. But I certainly understand now why 9/10 radiologists are happy with their field while 6/10 hospitalists are.

Yeah inpatient medicine at places like that can be very unpleasant. My wife was a hospitalist in the suburbs for a number of years and probably 90% of her patient interactions were very pleasant. Same with me in the outpatient setting.

That's not to say that radiology isn't the right career for you, just that taking intern year as the template for what a career of this would look like is not always going to be accurate.