What specialties are good for jokesters or relaxed people?

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I know all specialties have a wide range of personalities in them, and each program is different from each other. One program could have very malignant personalities while another could be supportive all under the same specialty. But, there are more prevalent personalities depending on the specialty.

Not to devolve into stereotypes, but,

Gen Surgeons are a little more...curt
Primary care tends to be a little more empathetic
rads tend to not like to work directly with (sick) people
Female ob/gyns tend to be a little more....curt also 😀

So I was wondering, what specialty would fit a jokester who is personally pretty laid back. But professionally, I get **** done, am on top of their responsibilities, and am a hard worker who is dedicated to medicine.

I have a hard time finding a specialty that fits in this niche.
 
Xenoblade said:
I know all specialties have a wide range of personalities in them, and each program is different from each other. One program could have very malignant personalities while another could be supportive all under the same specialty. But, there are more prevalent personalities depending on the specialty.

Not to devolve into stereotypes, but,

Gen Surgeons are a little more...curt
Primary care tends to be a little more empathetic
rads tend to not like to work directly with (sick) people
Female ob/gyns tend to be a little more....curt also 😀

So I was wondering, what specialty would fit a jokester who is personally pretty laid back. But professionally, I get **** done, am on top of their responsibilities, and am a hard worker who is dedicated to medicine.

I have a hard time finding a specialty that fits in this niche.
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I've heard that anesthesia is a gas, but surgeons are also always cutting up.
 
Xenoblade said:
I know all specialties have a wide range of personalities in them, and each program is different from each other. One program could have very malignant personalities while another could be supportive all under the same specialty. But, there are more prevalent personalities depending on the specialty.

Not to devolve into stereotypes, but,

Gen Surgeons are a little more...curt
Primary care tends to be a little more empathetic
rads tend to not like to work directly with (sick) people
Female ob/gyns tend to be a little more....curt also 😀

So I was wondering, what specialty would fit a jokester who is personally pretty laid back. But professionally, I get **** done, am on top of their responsibilities, and am a hard worker who is dedicated to medicine.

I have a hard time finding a specialty that fits in this niche.
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Anesthesia. Your patients and surgeons will love you.
 
Xenoblade said:
So I was wondering, what specialty would fit a jokester who is personally pretty laid back. But professionally, I get **** done, am on top of their responsibilities, and am a hard worker who is dedicated to medicine.

I have a hard time finding a specialty that fits in this niche.
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I've met that personality in pretty much every service. Two of the most laid back guys I know are a peds abdominal transplant guy and a cardiothoracic surgeon. I think you will have to pick your specialty for something other than its stereotypical personality.
 
Internal medicine, the patient has been depressed since she began seeing me in 2007.
 
EM has got to be one of the most laid back specialties. The variety provides endless comic relief. Chief complaint of "Foreign body in rectum"? Oh yeah.
 
Ortho. They're hilarious to hang out with, but they can be a little fratty sometimes.
 
Hospitalized said:
EM has got to be one of the most laid back specialties. The variety provides endless comic relief. Chief complaint of "Foreign body in rectum"? Oh yeah.
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A different way to evaluate EM is from the perspective of some of those services it consults in the middle of the night to try and admit patients -- there's definitely humor there, but it's more of the frustrated variety at the other end of the phone. Watch some of those humerous YouTube videos of two cartoon dogs/ bears talking labeled "surgery vs ER", "internal medicine vs ER" and get a better sense of the exasperated view other services sometimes have with them. It's different than the picture you get from TV.

There's a ton of humor in medicine if you have a dark gallows sense of humor. But i think you are missing the big picture if you zone in on one as most chill and funny -- they are all the butt of the joke for some other specialty and whatever field you choose you'll be chuckling at some other specialty's expense at some point. Show me any specialty and I can show you others that are goofing on them daily. Because of it's numerous interactions with so many other fields, I'd say EM tends to edge out FM as the most goofed upon specialty, whether it's deserved or not. So if being a "jokester" is important it kind of depends on whether you want to be the guy goofing on others rather than the guy being goofed on. Relaxed is a very different question, and I've never heard EM be described as relaxed.
 
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