I am wondering what specialty requires above average knowledge of most aspects of medicine. Initially, I was thinking emergency med. any thoughts?
it just so happens that Dr. House was a nephrologistnephrology
once you understand the nephron, you understand everything.
Was this an interview question?I am wondering what specialty requires above average knowledge of most aspects of medicine. Initially, I was thinking emergency med. any thoughts?
Nephro/IDit just so happens that Dr. House was a nephrologist
Was this an interview question?
It is now...This was not an interview question. Just something I was wondering about.
I'd say a properly-trained FM doc.
Dr. House. He can diagnose patients, do his own surgery (without anesthesia it seems), run radiology imaging and even break into houses. He's a the whole doctor package.
"Referral to dermatology, psychiatry, ortho, cardiology, rheumatology, endocrinology, and physical therapy"
I know right? He said in episode two he's a medicine resident but in the same episode he scrubbed into a heart transplant and it showed a dramatic shot of him holding his patient's old heart in his hands.Or that guy from "The Resident" --- he walks around in jeans and scrub shirt like he owns the whole hospital and tells the Chief of Surgery to go F himself
I know right? He said in episode two he's a medicine resident but in the same episode he scrubbed into a heart transplant and it showed a dramatic shot of him holding his patient's old heart in his hands.
I need to check out ER, I'm a sucker for medical tv shows after I started watching Grey's Anatomy after a decade of avoiding it and ended up binging it. Now I have free time before med school I'm going to watch all the classicsIt's weird how every medical TV show character is 50X smarter than anything in real life --- even Carter from "ER" was smarter than most attendings when he was still an MS3
I need to check out ER, I'm a sucker for medical tv shows after I started watching Grey's Anatomy after a decade of avoiding it and ended up binging it. Now I have free time before med school I'm going to watch all the classics
Not to mention cute as hellDr. House. He can diagnose patients, do his own surgery (without anesthesia it seems), run radiology imaging and even break into houses. He's a the whole doctor package.
Since the interviewer will be most interested in my thought process/critical thinking, I would also approach it from an additional angle: ... analogue to rusty/rarely used tools in a Swiss Army knife, which speciality/Doctor possesses the most ‘unused’ skills...
Psychiatrist?