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[LunaOri]

Read your own post. It’s clear you want to go into ortho, so do it! You will make plenty of money, and you can be independent—the hospitals need you more than you need them.

 

[VA Hopeful Dr]

Read your own post. It’s clear you want to go into ortho, so do it! You will make plenty of money, and you can be independent—the hospitals need you more than you need them.

Yep. Plus there are ways around most of the negatives.

I have a hand surgeon cousin who has 7 partners. So at worse he's q7, might be less if the other hand surgeons in town share ER call. Plus, there is an Ortho residency so he's basically phone call unless surgery can't wait until morning.

We have a PP group in town that owns their own surgery center. Total joints are still in the hospital ORs but a lot of what they do otherwise is done at their own center.

 

[sloop]

I agree with the above that it sounds like you want ortho, but I remain confused what you mean by psychiatrists being soft. If you mean that they tend to be liberal, that might be true at some places, but virtue signaling isn’t very common. If anything, I’ve found that psychiatrists are some of the most likely people to tell patients that they need to take responsibility for their own behaviors and that nobody else is going to swoop in to save them.

 

[Dral]

If you don't want to do PMR -> Sports due to the lower pay, just do Ortho. It sounds like that's what you really want.

Just remember, since Step 1 went p/f you'll need minimal bench press scores to land a spot. 😆

 

[i-doctor]

I agree with the above that it sounds like you want ortho, but I remain confused what you mean by psychiatrists being soft. If you mean that they tend to be liberal, that might be true at some places, but virtue signaling isn’t very common. If anything, I’ve found that psychiatrists are some of the most likely people to tell patients that they need to take responsibility for their own behaviors and that nobody else is going to swoop in to save them.

I interpreted being soft as perhaps something “non-masculine”. There are obviously a couple of interpretations.
From that comment alone Ortho would be the right fit!

 

[VA Hopeful Dr]

I agree with the above that it sounds like you want ortho, but I remain confused what you mean by psychiatrists being soft. If you mean that they tend to be liberal, that might be true at some places, but virtue signaling isn’t very common. If anything, I’ve found that psychiatrists are some of the most likely people to tell patients that they need to take responsibility for their own behaviors and that nobody else is going to swoop in to save them.

If your psychiatry residency interview didn't talk about how much you can lift...

 

[Gilakend]

PMR: Committing to doing pain as a med student, even if you think you like it, sounds terrifying, so I would rule out PM&R.

Rads: Radiology sounds soul-crushing if you don't love it, just grinding studies away all day. Also I was told MSK rads can feel not as useful as other rads fields (literal wizards) bc ortho reads their own films anyways.

Psych: If you like the ortho stereotype and like the ortho resident room/OR, I highly doubt you'll enjoy hanging out with psych residents.

Ortho: I was in a similar position of ortho vs something else. I chose something else, for your options ortho seems like the right choice. I wouldn't even consider residency that big of a con bc it is going to suck for everyone and wouldn't consider relying on the hospital a con bc everyone in medicine relies on someone else, whether that is patients (cash practice) or administration. Lifestyle will be worse than other things, but if you are willing to take a pay cut you could make it what you want most likely. I'd go ortho if I were you.

 

[wholeheartedly]

you’re MS2? have you rotated in anything yet?

 

[Styrene]

If psychiatrists seeming soft is of any concern, psychiatry is definitely not a good fit.