OBGYN "smell" issues should usually only be present when you are dealing with let's just say very 'active' people or 'ladies of call' with PID, which you will see and smell your share of if you work in an inner city ED. Not kidding. (In fact for many of these replies, I have to say some of you might want to r/o ED in general.)
BTW many women that tend to keep a clean shop shouldn't be a problem in the smell department.
Most in OBGYN seem to really love it, except for the call early on in the practice and the serious malpractice fees and concerns.
As for ObGYn and losing sex drive, uh never heard that with those docs either. It's really not like that for them professionally. Not much different than popping up the hood of a car after a while.
A person can get grossed out from any aspect of dealing with humans--even psych. Pulmonology is interesting; but dealing with too much sputum is tough at times for me--and I work in ICUs where vents and such require dealing with sputum.
For me the list would be no to:
gen surg, vascular surg, neurosurg, CT surg, trauma/surg. . .basically anything that involves more than 20% surgery--which would include ortho--manipulating bone and such structures all the time--nah. Although, for those where it matters, pretty much anything in surgery is going to yield higher financially in the long run--for something like CT or neuro or even ortho surg, well a lot higher.
Those that move into gastroenterology are raking in the money--procedurally they can make a lot. Endo/GI labs are quite busy. This is not something I'm primarily and exclusively interested in; althoug GI issues can be interesting and not easy to figure out many times.
Radiology would make my eyes cross. Interventional does well--but again, not really interested in that.
Genetics may be interesting, but I'm interested in a wide variety of issues and types of patient populations and various treatments and such.
Cardiology is interesting; but it is overstocked in many areas--like lawyers, lol.
Where some in primary practice have told me there is more of a need right now is in peds endocrinology.
And you know you could easily change on some of these things. Initially I never thought I would do peds--it scared me so--but I'm glad I was open to it and made the move.
And that one bit in Kill Bill 2, forget about it.
