Which medical specialties have the most laid back personalities

[Dave89]

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Yeah except for these schools, i did not get into d schools cause i did not apply.

Kinda teasing here, but it almost seems that you're trying to convince yourself that giving up dental school for med school wasn't a mistake.

Don't worry - you probably have the test-taking abilities to match into Derm, Ophtho, or Rad Onc.

 

[Guero]

Yes we all dislike NPs. But i also dislike not cool dentists who hate on us and claim that they are better than us. So i kick their ass

I never said anything about liking or disliking. To the contrary, I happen to highly value and respect NPs and PAs. Several of my friends and colleagues decided to pursue that route and are very happy with their comparatively laid back lifestyles, hence the comment.

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Yeah except for these schools, i did not get into d schools cause i did not apply.

Kind of a "D" move on that not so humble brag of a pic, tho... :/

 

[Psai]

I never said anything about liking or disliking. To the contrary, I happen to highly value and respect NPs and PAs. Several of my friends and colleagues decided to pursue that route and are very happy with their comparatively laid back lifestyles, hence the comment.

Kind of a "D" move on that not so humble brag of a pic, tho... :/

I like that pic. I never got a harvard folder so I'm living vicariously

 

[Low Flow]

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Yeah except for these schools, i did not get into d schools cause i did not apply.

Your posts are so unbearable. It's like one of those instances in real life where someone around you is being so awkward that it makes you feel awkward just being around them.

 

[Screwtape]

y'all need to thank me for not letting these second place folks from getting on your nerves. They wanna challenge you and take your first place.

Thank you for your admirable work. And you're right, I actually did my first craniotomy today--one hell of a sneeze. Brain surgeon DDS here I come!

 

[libraryismyhome]

Your posts are so unbearable. It's like one of those instances in real life where someone around you is being so awkward that it makes you feel awkward just being around them.

Hahaha no worries. I dont do this in real life. You would wanna be my friend in real life

 

[ortnakas]

Yes we all dislike NPs. But i also dislike not cool dentists who hate on us and claim that they are better than us. So i kick their ass

What kind of angry dentists are you hanging out with? In my almost-30 years on this planet, I've never met a single doctor-hating dentist.

 

[ACSurgeon]

I never said anything about liking or disliking. To the contrary, I happen to highly value and respect NPs and PAs. Several of my friends and colleagues decided to pursue that route and are very happy with their comparatively laid back lifestyles, hence the comment.

Kind of a "D" move on that not so humble brag of a pic, tho... :/

That pic proves nothing. Maybe he went on a info tour. Maybe he got an interview. The folder is far from evidence of being accepted at any, let alone all those schools.

 

[sharpstickie]

Le troll has been fed.

That pic proves nothing. Maybe he went on a info tour. Maybe he got an interview. The folder is far from evidence of being accepted at any, let alone all those schools.

 

[Microshaft]

Le troll has been fed.

Raging about a troll post is dumb

but pointing out dumb logic in a troll post is far from "feeding" the troll

 

[sharpstickie]

That is very true. I believe we should just drop it.

Raging about a troll post is dumb

but pointing out dumb logic in a troll post is far from "feeding" the troll

 

[libraryismyhome]

Have a good weekend guys. 🙂

 

[jeffk805dent]

What kind of angry dentists are you hanging out with? In my almost-30 years on this planet, I've never met a single doctor-hating dentist.

I know two dentists that seem to have some odd envy about physicians. Though both are so douchey all around that they would have been angry doctors had they decided to become one. So consider that a win for your profession (or at least two less douchey physicians to meet at a convention).

 

[AlteredScale]

Neurosurgeons seem to be super chillaxed

 

[Guero]

Neurosurgeons seem to be super chillaxed

Actually quite accurate in terms of personality, it's just the lifestyle that's in direct contradiction. I've always been fascinated by that dichotomy.

 

[TheBoneDoctah]

Anesthesiologists and pathologists get my vote

 

[AlteredScale]

Actually quite accurate in terms of personality, it's just the lifestyle that's in direct contradiction. I've always been fascinated by that dichotomy.

When I shadowed in neurosurgery at UCSD the attending was one of the most calm docs I had met. Minus the time the surg tech could't find the right wrench for him..then he fipped out hahaha

 

[Guero]

. . .

The fact that Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons get reimbursed something like $2,000 per wisdom tooth they extract still blows my mind (a higher reimbursement than many other surgical procedures)... with an average salary of 450-600k 😉. To be fair, they have longer training that a ton of medical specialties, so it's well deserved... but still
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That's not entirely accurate. (EDIT: But I totally had to correct myself on the dental aspects since I wasn't as familiar as I had initially thought.) There are several different paths to Oral & Maxillofacial surgery, the minimum being 8 years (4 dental School, 4 residency) leading solely to a DDS degree, or a 10 year program leading to DDS/MD dual degrees (4 years dental, 6 years residency plus MD). Medicine's shortest training timeframes (e.g., family medicine, internal medicine) include 4 years' med school and a 3 year residency. But general medical and surgical specialties' residencies span 3 to 7 (e.g., neurosurgery) years, with fellowship training for subspecialties spanning an additional 1 to 4 years.

To make some comparisons, a general neurosurgeon completes 10 or 11 years total, depending on the residency program (a very few community programs offering 6 years, most others being academic and 7 years). A neurosurgeon completing one fellowship can train up to 14 total years. Likewise, an electrophysiologist, a subspecialty of medicine, completes up to 12 years of total training (4 years med school, 3 years of internal medicine, 3 years of cardiology fellowship, and 2 years of an electrophysiology fellowship).

These are facts seldom understood even by fellow medical students. It's shocking how much time we invest in training. But then again, I'd always rather have someone very well practiced taking care of any of those needs.

 

[Guero]

I had no idea there were so many variations in paths to Maxillofacial surgery. They amount to a darn permutation when you consider DDS vs MD vs MD/DDS.

 

[libraryismyhome]

Meh

Most dentists - ESPECIALLY specialists (endo, oral surgery, orthodontics, etc) are waaaay more laid back than most physicians.

Trust me... They out-earn 80% of physicians. General dentists are pretty chill too.

The fact that Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons get reimbursed something like $2,000 per wisdom tooth they extract still blows my mind (a higher reimbursement than many other surgical procedures)... with an average salary of 450-600k 😉. To be fair, they have longer training that a ton of medical specialties, so it's well deserved... but still


The odds of you running into a douchey/pissy physician are much higher than running into a pissy dentist IMO. That might change though - now that saturation is killing the dental field 🤣

Endo, ortho are like Optho and derm. If one is not top 10 percent in an average dental school, one is bound to be a general dentist in a saturated market or living in crappy areas

Harvard is an exception though. Only 1 or 2 do general dentistry and that is his or her choice