-Radiology?
-Emergency Medicine?
-General Surgery?
-Emergency Medicine?
-General Surgery?
What is your personal opinion about
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1. They read images of stuff
2. They work in the emergency department
3. They generally perform surgeries.
But these are just my personal opinions. I'd be interested to hear others' thoughts.
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In terms of what?
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1) Meh. I think CT/MRI's are cool, but I wouldn't want to dedicate my entire life to it. Interventional Radiology seems more interesting. Radiology just doesn't appeal to me.
2) No comment.... It's just not something I would want to do.
3) Well.......
In terms of going into it as a specialty
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In my opinion, all three are specialties that can be gone into.
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Well, to be fair, your post was really ****ing dumb.
I just wanted to hear personal opinions about each specialty. I don't know why that's considered dumb. I thought these boards were here to help people.
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I don't know much, considering I'm an M1, but I did shadow a radiologist and a general surgeon. Radiology was okay, not too exciting, but I can see why people would like it. I thought general surgery was awesome, but I'm a surgery guy so I might be a little biased. As for EM, I have no idea but honestly I don't know why people like it so much.
Thank you
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How about saying why YOU want to do these specialties?
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- Not enough patient contact
- Don't really like adults, though in general I like the specialty. Prefer a bit more continuity, though.
- Too long of a residency, too long of hours, not really interesting.
- Don't really like adults, though in general I like the specialty. Prefer a bit more continuity, though.
- Too long of a residency, too long of hours, not really interesting.
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If you ask the vaguest question possible, expect vague and snarky answers.
Moving to pre-allo, as OP is pre-med.
Moving to pre-allo, as OP is pre-med.
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That's because you were being a lazy arse with your question. If you don't put in time to write a more thorough, thoughtful question, then don't expect others to be more thorough or thoughtful in their responses. You get what you give.
I didn't think anyone was interested in reading a long drawn out post. I just simply wanted opinions about each specialty. I still think I did nothing that warranted people to react the way they did.
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- Interesting, especially their knowledge of anatomy, but overall boring and I can't sit in one place for too long. I'd fall asleep in those dark rooms pretty quickly. IR is great if you can make it through the radiology residency.
- Don't get me started. The ones who are very good and hard working are great, but many have become lazy, don't even see the patients before they consult you, and call for ridiculous consults hoping that you'll do their work for them. If you want to deal with a lot of psych and annoying people on the phone all day is your idea of a good job, then by all means, go for EM. Just don't be shocked when in a few years when people start realizing that EM physicians are glorified triage nurses and start replacing them with NP's and PA's (who can do the same exact job for half the money).
- Clearly I'm biased here....long hours but you get to do and see a variety of things. Yes, you'll lean to operate, but you should also be comfortable with critical care by the time you are finished with residency (depends on your program). You'll rotate on a wide variety of services, which can include Trauma, CT, vascular, transplant, colorectal, minimally invasive, hepatobiliary, plastics, and surgical oncology. All of these fields have fellowships (although this may change with more integrated programs popping up). Many of the academic programs have research time built in to their programs, so you come out extremely well rounded as a physician. 5-7 years is an extremely long time, and you'll probably be working more than the 80 hour limit per week if you really want to learn to be a good surgeon. The lifestyle clearly isn't for everyone, but I think it's fun and I would quit medicine if I couldn't be a surgeon.
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My opinions for op:
1) Science is really cool, but not interested in it as from what I understand you don't get to much in terms of patient contact.
2)Very interesting, like that every day is different. However I really don't like you don't get to follow up with patients and see how they progress.
3)Of no interest to me as I am more of a "thinker" then a "doer". Plus I don't have the steadiest hands 😛
1) Science is really cool, but not interested in it as from what I understand you don't get to much in terms of patient contact.
2)Very interesting, like that every day is different. However I really don't like you don't get to follow up with patients and see how they progress.
3)Of no interest to me as I am more of a "thinker" then a "doer". Plus I don't have the steadiest hands 😛
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We are always interested when you put in a real effort. I don't know what gave you that idea.
As a premed:
1) I like looking at images of great detail and the idea of making diagnoses and treating patients with frikin' light is attractive. Based on what I've read, I would definitely shadow DR. However, I'd say IR draws me more, at least looking in from the outside.
2) I've yet to shadow an EM doc. I may do so eventually, but I'm not overly attracted to the field.
3) I have shadowed in the OR and it does consist of standing for quite a long time, but the immediate addressing of disease is appealing, even if the lifestyle isn't.
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Radiology: Absolutely vital for any field.
Emergency Medicine: Plenty of fellowship opportunities to keep you happy in case you burn out.
General Surgery: . . . Terrible compensation for the work they're putting out. I want to hug every one I meet and tell them it's going to be okay.
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You don't need a long drawn out post. You just need to say more than "What is your personal opinion...." if you want more than "1. 2. 3."
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My thoughts exactly.
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Anesthesiology, Pain, various Critical Cares, Toxicology, etc.
Maybe not something for everyone.
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Anesthesiology is a residency. Pain is an anesthesiology fellowship.
CCM is not EM specific and is arguably more demanding and more prone to burnout.
I hear tox is pretty chill.
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This is about pain medicine:
http://www.abms.org/public_comment/pdf/ABEM - Pain Medicine.pdf
And like @J Senpai said, it's anesthesiology critical care. So I was sort of mistaken.
The really chill fellowships may be toxicology and sports medicine. With the latter being too uncompetitive despite the attractive salary.
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EM sports med does not sound like a "really chill" specialty. From my understanding it is basically normal EM exchanging 1 day per week in Sports clinic for 1 shift in the ED. Where are you getting the attractive salary info from?
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EM is awesome. I can't speak to the other specialties as I did not go into them. I do learn a lot from reviewing the images and reads of radiologic studies on my patients. I also learn a lot about subtle early management tips from surgical consultants. But I don't know jack about either as a specialty.
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And this is why people have no business talking **** about specialties they don't know **** about.
Makes as much sense as saying NPs/PAs can do a surgeon's job for less than half the price.
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Awww did I hit a nerve????
Except I've worked in the ED moonlighting during my research year. Besides being bored out of my mind, it wasn't overly difficult or overwhelming.
Patient with chest pain? Call cards.
Abdominal pain? Call surgery.
Possible stroke? Call neurology.
Septic patient? Call medicine.
Toxicology problem? Call poison control and ask them what to do.
Like I said, some ED guys are great but they are they exception. As a group much of what they do (trolling everyone else) can be done by PAs and NPs. Picking up the phone isn't that hard. EM wasn't even a speciality until relatively recently, before that it was IM and surgeons who used to do it.
Maybe if you can get your colleagues to actually start seeing patients before they start calling consults and stop turfing even the simplest procedures to specialists (can't tell you how many simple abscesses I get called to drain), then maybe some of the other docs in the hospital might see the value of what you do.
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Yes, the downfall of that niceness on the part of SDN in that regard is getting threads asking what to do if someone rips a fart.
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Except NPs and PAs don't WANT to do Surgery - I wonder why? They want to play on the sidelines. Yet, apparently hospitals believe they have a place in Emergency Depts. across the nation.
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You took the words right out of my mouth.
1. Reading scans from a screen in a room all day isn't too appealing, and there is minimal patient contact (With the exception of IR).
2. ER seems like it can be interesting as every day is something new, however there's a lack of seeing how a patient progresses.
3. Surgery is pretty cool, however the lifestyle of surgeons doesn't appeal to me.
2. ER seems like it can be interesting as every day is something new, however there's a lack of seeing how a patient progresses.
3. Surgery is pretty cool, however the lifestyle of surgeons doesn't appeal to me.
