Internal Medicine and General Surgery, also maybe some of the Surgical Specialties: Neurosurgery, etc. (definitely not Ortho)
Emergency Medicine wasn't even an official specialty in the 1960s. The first residency program in that specialty didn't exist till 1970.
Definitely General Surgery. That used to be very competitive.
I think he was being facetious.
I should have known. @GuyWhoDoesStuff is a funny guy. Of course it was difficult to match into - it didn't exist. LOL.
Yes, I know, figured it out. lol.
What fluctuations? It's just a change from a generation ago.
It's bc back then ALL of medicine paid well, medical school tuition was ridiculously cheap, and due to an inordinate amount of autonomy and the ability to have satisfying physician-patient relationships, medicine was seen as a calling. People did what they found intellectually satisfying.
Simple reasons really: different value set of physicians a generation ago vs. those entering medical school now (esp. with the job market), medical school tuition continuing to increase without any added value, less overall autonomy, more third party interference, pay for performance and patient satisfaction surveys, healthcare reform, increased documentation, etc.
There was a saying here one time that back then if you were at the bottom of your class you were "stuck" going into Ortho. Can you imagine?!?!
Psych has several reasons for not being "competitive". Psych has also changed drastically in practice due to reimbursement schemes unfortunately.
I did a google search, and could not find anything on this topic. Can you please elaborate what happened?
I know a couple of path. You can make money as a medical witness. Other than that, I hear the market isn't so great.
I believe that. Derm as a procedural specialty was just coming into fruition. I would say esp. in the 1990s with managed care, etc. the emphasis on lifestyle was accelerated.I read somewhere that until the 1990s derm was making about as much as family med, and less competitive.
I think it depends where u do Path residency and what fellowship you do.
Third party payers don't reimburse psychotherapy. So a lot of psychiatry has become drug-adjustments and checks.
The only thing that was really worse back then was the residencies, especially General Surgery.
Yes, pretty much. You were treated like a Chinese sweatshop worker as far as hours. People were also a lot less sick back then too.
Now just watch. The people who are "stuck" with Family Medicine will probably be living the ( in the quite sophisticated terminology of PL198) "baller" life in 25 years.
Wouldn't surprise me if they're doing concierge care.
If I asked my mom (she's a general surgeon who did her residency in the mid 80's) she'd probably say she wished she would have been treated as well as a Chinese sweatshop worker.
Women weren't even close to the numbers they are in medicine now. Many of them were stay at home housewives dependent on their husbands. Now, of course, she can get up and leave with her own salary AND take you to court and get your earnings.
We have to stop talking about a doctors life in the 1970s. I'm starting to reconsider my choice of profession and wish I'm lived back then.
No, people just sucked it up back then. Now, we live in the entitlement society were people don't think they should have to work hard- at least some people.
Tell me about it. They got an awesome deal back then in many respects. No question.We have to stop talking about a doctors life in the 1970s. I'm starting to reconsider my choice of profession and wish I'm lived back then.
I'm not saying someone who doesn't work 120 hours a week is an entitled p*ssy, I'm saying the mere concept of working 120 hours a week seems so unrealistic and foreign as our society has drifted away from hard work like that- and as a result it's hard to believe. No one works that hard anymore.
What's that supposed to mean?
What is your specialty? Ortho?
Oh yeah, that makes sense.
