Dunno why your schools are so crazy about it, mine has only a small number interested. Probably 25-30 people over all 4 years.
When you get on the wards, you'll see how rarely treatments in medicine actually work. The beauty of ortho is that successful treatment is routine, and you're constantly making people's lives better. Feelsgoodman.jpg. There was a JAMA article not to long ago that demonstrated that total joint arthroplasty provides more quality-adjusted life-years than any other type of surgery in any field.
Plus, you're not futzing around with a pair of sticks trying to grab a slippery appendix/gall bladder in someone's abdomen. No sticking tweezers or long instruments into someone's ears/nose/throat. You're making big incisions and grabbing things with your hands, doing some carpentry, and installing highly-engineered devices and hardware. It's cool stuff.
slippery appendix/gall bladder in someone's abdomen -- Really? Nope.
Literally 60-70 % of my class wants to do ortho. It's so enraging. Honestly I think it's just the idiots that look up salaries and are like " zomg I want to do ortho.
That's what I was talking about.
The atheletic component is such a small part of ortho, not sure why everyone focuses on it. Most ortho patients are really old or young, unless you do sports medicine. I guess trauma has some age variety, but old people break bones more often as well. Orthopaedists aren't jocks anymore than any other field, it's just an old joke/stereotype.
