What kind of doctor works the least hours?

[Laryngophed]

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So... what's your point? The OP's asking about specialties and bringing this up is irrelevant.

Non-sequitors are a fact of life for the internet. I took his first post to be a joke, but his second joke seemed to imply that he was serious. Either way, maybe he's just trollin' a little. That's not new around here.

 

[Geekchick921]

Non-sequitors are a fact of life for the internet. I took his first post to be a joke, but his second joke seemed to imply that he was serious. Either way, maybe he's just trollin' a little. That's not new around here.

Gee, thanks. I had no idea.

 

[patel2]

So... what's your point? The OP's asking about specialties and bringing this up is irrelevant.

That point was in response to the poster who claimed I was a "sexist bigot". My initial post was answering the OP- female doctors, in virtually all specialties work the least hours, in part because getting pregnant and raising kids leads to a desire to work part time for many women.

 

[Geekchick921]

My point was in response to the poster who claimed I was a "sexist bigot". But it's also relevant to the OP- female doctors, in virtually all specialties, work the least hours, in part because getting pregnant and raising kids leads to a desire to work part time for many women.

Fair enough, but I find it odd that your last statement suggests that only female doctors who are parents want to work fewer hours/spend more time with their children, not males as well.

Just FTR, I don't entirely have a dog in this fight. I have every intention of being done popping out kids before I become an attending.

 

[oldbearprofessor]

Related to the OP and neonatology....

I wouldn't really consider neonatology to be a job that works the "least hours." When on the clinical service, I work 60-80 hours a week and so do the vast majority of my colleagues. I know enough other groups to know this is not atypical and certainly 50-60 hours/week is common. I take in-house night call and most neonatologists who are not near retirement take either in-house or home call. Increasingly, it is in-house call in the larger NICUs. A lifetime of taking in-house call would never be my idea of a "least hours" type of job.😉

There are shift jobs, part-time jobs, and night-float attending jobs available and these are certainly appealing for some people, especially when they have other commitments, such as working for the FDA (one person I know...).

Over the long haul however, the majority of neonatologists will primarily not be doing it as a shift job either via being a night float doc or doing only 24 hour shifts. The benefits, both to doctor and patient, of continuity of care make neo very different than EM. Even those doing it as shift work will be almost always be doing quite a few nights.

 

[Laryngophed]

Gee, thanks. I had no idea.

You were the one who responded to him as though you were going to get a response. 😉

 

[BBender716]

...the unemployed doctor?

 

[gravitywave]

Related to the OP and neonatology....

I wouldn't really consider neonatology to be a job that works the "least hours." When on the clinical service, I work 60-80 hours a week and so do the vast majority of my colleagues. I know enough other groups to know this is not atypical and certainly 50-60 hours/week is common. I take in-house night call and most neonatologists who are not near retirement take either in-house or home call. Increasingly, it is in-house call in the larger NICUs. A lifetime of taking in-house call would never be my idea of a "least hours" type of job.😉

There are shift jobs, part-time jobs, and night-float attending jobs available and these are certainly appealing for some people, especially when they have other commitments, such as working for the FDA (one person I know...).

Over the long haul however, the majority of neonatologists will primarily not be doing it as a shift job either via being a night float doc or doing only 24 hour shifts. The benefits, both to doctor and patient, of continuity of care make neo very different than EM. Even those doing it as shift work will be almost always be doing quite a few nights.

thanks for the clarification, i had been wondering about some of these details.

 

[45408]

Thank you all for your very helpful answers. This thread has been eye-opening for me. I used to think almost all doctors worked crazy hours, but now I see there are many reasonable options.

There aren't. There are a few "reasonable" options. The number of specialties may seem like a lot, but the number of people going into them is relatively low.

 

[45408]

Really? No one's jumped all over this sexist bigot yet? 😡 I'll have you know not all women want children and not all fathers decide to be absent from their home life because of their careers.

That being said, family and/or laziness do not usually mix well with a career in medicine. Sounds like it's not for the OP.

If you look at the data, female physicians work an average of 5 fewer hours per week. Interpret that as you will.

 

[SouthParkMD]

I would have to say that the doctor who works the least hours is a dead one…..lol.

 

[Darwinism]

you are obnoxious

+1

 

[xiaomeimei]

Why are you applying to med school if you don't want to work hard?

 

[aSagacious]

This is an SDN joke. There was a discussion about it a while back. You should search for it and maybe his reference will sink in a bit more.

Link plz? 🙂

 

[Lccjblu]

I didn't care to read through all the posts, so I apologize if this has already been mentioned but..

ED docs tend to work three 12-hour shifts per week. It may be a long shift, but you get quite a lot of break during the week =)