Why would anyone ever become a colorectal surgeon?

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last time i checked, diagnosing or treating many forms of medical ailments was pretty disgusting.
 
docelh said:
last time i checked, diagnosing or treating many forms of medical ailments was pretty disgusting.
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It's ass, though. Ass is different. It's on a whole new level of disgusting.

Besides, your friends/acquaintances will know you as the "ass doctor"...
 
Chemdude said:
I couldn't stand looking at disfigured anus for the rest of my life. Is it out of interest? Good pay?
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One put it to me like this: "I can actually cure a lot of my patients."

Compare that to the rest of adult medical practice and you'll see his point.
 
Carribean MDs would lol
 
Because bowel resections are fun and exciting? It's not all anal polyps and 'roids, you know. The CR people at my place do a lot of work with the GI guys, have their own endo block time, etc...
 
TheDuder said:
Kindly get the f*** out of medicine. That is all.
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Tough guy! ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Apparently duder likes disfigured anuses.

To answer the OP, I think you could make this argument for almost any specialty in medicine (e.g. who wants to look at disfigured lungs/bones etc)
 
Because one day YOU might get colorectal cancer and require treatment. Try asking that same question to your doctor in the future.
 
blaithnaid said:
Because bowel resections are fun and exciting? It's not all anal polyps and 'roids, you know. The CR people at my place do a lot of work with the GI guys, have their own endo block time, etc...
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I just googled anal polyp...those things look nasty...
 
And rectal prolapse looks delicious....
 
So they can put the ASSMAN license plate on their car, of course.
 
5-star thread. I agree with OP

I could not look at ASS all day everyday...















































































unless I was in Brazil.
 
anfleisch said:
So they can put the ASSMAN license plate on their car, of course.
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👍

But I feel like there are a lot of specialties that many ppl think are disgusting or weird.

I personally could never be a pediatrician. Or a medical examiner or whatever (who wants to look at dead ppl all day every day?) And I think unless I can be a gynecologist of the stars, I could never do Ob/Gyn...just saying.
 
Haven't you ever volunteered in a hospital (outside of the ER)? Pretty much everyone's naked anyways.
 
Chemdude said:
And rectal prolapse looks delicious....
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So do nasty compound fractures and faces in need of reconstruction. Burn victims even scream when you redress. Let's face it, there aren't many fields in medicine where some intestinal fortitude doesn't go a long way. Even the "cushy" fields like derm have their moments (just look through a derm photo atlas, and don't even get me started on opth...).

I've shadowed some GI docs for some considerable hours, and I have to say it's not a bad gig. I can imagine that colorectal surgery is a lot of the same in terms of the medicine side of what a gastroenterologist might see, but the field has the additional procedures that go with surgery. Why do people go into Ob/Gyn? Why do people go into Urology? Why does anyone go into medicine at all (speaking strictly from the eww-factor perspective)? There's nothing distinctively more disgusting about butts than anything else one might encounter in medicine.
 
I was dx with Crohn's and Ulcerative Colitis when I was 10. I suffered through 6 years of severe pain, 5 hour infusions every 6 weeks, self injections, being on 8 pills a day for years, having a moon face through middle school because of medications, and eventually ended up getting an ileostomy which I have had for 3 years.

I know what it's like to have GI problems and I intend to try the hardest I can to become either a GI physician or a colorectal surgeon so I can research possible cures, treat children who went through what I did or worse and serve them the compassion and understanding they deserve, and help dispel the stigma of talking about anything "icky" which this thread seems to spew (the result of which leads to young children and young adults being afraid to talk to their parents or doctor because they think it's too disgusting).

The ASSMAN license plate would be pretty sick too. 🙂
 
Diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks.

I imagine once you've seen a stranger's manky anus more than 10 or so times it's all the same anyway.
 
I took that 150 or so "What Specialty is Right for You" questionnaire which had my tops three as urologist, colorectal surgeon, and OB/GYN. Apparently I like the exits of the human body?

I would do it if I found it interesting. I have no shadowing experience with it so I can't really comment on it now, but I could see how some people would enjoy it.
 
dr zaius said:
I took that 150 or so "What Specialty is Right for You" questionnaire which had my tops three as urologist, colorectal surgeon, and OB/GYN. Apparently I like the exits of the human body?

I would do it if I found it interesting. I have no shadowing experience with it so I can't really comment on it now, but I could see how some people would enjoy it.
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Which one was that? Was that the Pathway Evaluation questionnaire?
 
Colorectal surgeons do more than "look at asses" all day. Last time I checked, both the colon and the rectum were internal organs.

Next time you spout off about how gross it'd be to deal with xyz body part every day in x specialty, I'd check to see what you're talking about. Plus, in medicine a little maturity goes a long way.

I am actually considering ob/gyn, urology, and general surgery as my top specialty choices. Am I a "dirty" person? People have real problems and need real help with those "gross" parts.
 
HAHAHAHA! colorectal surgery is 6th on my list.....


1 dermatology 46
2 radiology 43
3 emergency med 42
4 general internal med 41
5 gastroenterology 41
6 colon & rectal surgery 40
7 pediatrics 40
8 pathology 40
9 nuclear med 40
10 occupational med 39
11 physical med & rehabilitation 39
12 urology 38
13 neurology 38
14 allergy & immunology 38
15 infectious disease 38
16 endocrinology 37
17 rheumatology 37
18 ophthalmology 37
19 thoracic surgery 37
20 psychiatry 37
21 plastic surgery 37
22 aerospace med 36
23 general surgery 36
24 neurosurgery 36
25 radiation oncology 36
26 anesthesiology 36
27 nephrology 35
28 cardiology 35
29 hematology 35
30 obstetrics/gynecology 35
31 preventive med 35
32 otolaryngology 34
33 orthopaedic surgery 34
34 med oncology 34
35 family practice 34
36 pulmonology 33
 
lol chemdude i have this funny feeling that you actually are going to end up being a colorectal surgeon.
 
Jolie South said:
Colorectal surgeons do more than "look at asses" all day. Last time I checked, both the colon and the rectum were internal organs.

Next time you spout off about how gross it'd be to deal with xyz body part every day in x specialty, I'd check to see what you're talking about. Plus, in medicine a little maturity goes a long way.

I am actually considering ob/gyn, urology, and general surgery as my top specialty choices. Am I a "dirty" person? People have real problems and need real help with those "gross" parts.
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Take a chill pill missy 🙄
 
I'm a nursing tech on a gastrointestinal/colorectal surgical floor and I love my job. Working on this floor wasn't necessarily my first choice, but I've come to enjoy it a great deal. People have many different reasons for wanting to go into the field of colorectal surgery. As a previous poster mentioned, a lot of the patients we see actually get better, and when they do get back on their feet they are usually very, very grateful for the treatment they received. It's a refreshing and rewarding experience. Also, OP should take into consideration that perhaps the doctor treating these patients is simply very interested in the digestive system and it's biology. It's not all about a$s.

It really takes a special person to be willing to work in this specialty. It's a sensitive and embarrassing situation for the patients needing the treatment and it takes a very understanding and compassionate doctor to be able to put the patient at ease. Someone has to do it, and people willing to dedicate their life to treating patients with colorectal illness/disease are usually very selfless and admirable people.
 
Seven of Nine said:
lol chemdude i have this funny feeling that you actually are going to end up being a colorectal surgeon.
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That would be true if he could make it to medical school. With his level of maturity, I doubt he would make it through the interview process.
 
That would be true if he could make it to medical school. With his level of maturity, I doubt he would make it through the interview process.
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Why were you even born??
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You guys are no fun...
 
I just hope I never have any of these people as my doctor... really guys, grow up!
 
Chemdude said:
You guys are no fun...
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I'm going to ahead and assume you have very limited clinical experience. That being said, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and believe you simply still have a lot to learn about medicine.
 
dr zaius said:
http://www.med-ed.virginia.edu/specialties/
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Wow...here's what I got on that:

[SIZE=-1]physical med & rehabilitation[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]pediatrics
[/SIZE][SIZE=-1]occupational med
[/SIZE][SIZE=-1]neurology
[/SIZE][SIZE=-1]rheumatology
[/SIZE][SIZE=-1]endocrinology
[/SIZE][SIZE=-1]general internal med
[/SIZE][SIZE=-1]dermatology
[/SIZE][SIZE=-1]allergy & immunology
[/SIZE][SIZE=-1]pathology

[/SIZE]
And here's what I got on the pathway evaluation thing:

Top 10:

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Radiation Oncology
Allergy and Immunology
Geriatric Medicine
Rheumatology
Pediatrics
Neurology
Family Practice
Otolaryngology
Internal Medicine


Interesting!
 
Chemdude said:
You guys are no fun...
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Rank Specialty Score
1 general surgery 47
2 thoracic surgery 46
3 colon & rectal surgery 46 Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
4 plastic surgery 45
5 radiology 44
6 anesthesiology 44
7 urology 43
8 otolaryngology 42
9 orthopaedic surgery 42
10 ophthalmology 42
11 obstetrics/gynecology 42
12 nuclear med 42
13 infectious disease 42
14 gastroenterology 42
15 radiation oncology 41
16 emergency med 40
17 hematology 40
18 pathology 40
19 nephrology 40
20 preventive med 40
21 occupational med 40
22 aerospace med 39
23 pulmonology 39
24 dermatology 39
25 neurology 38
26 neurosurgery 38
27 cardiology 37
28 allergy & immunology 37
29 endocrinology 36
30 rheumatology 36
31 physical med & rehabilitation 36
32 pediatrics 36
33 med oncology 35
34 general internal med 35
35 family practice 33
36 psychiatry 32
 
roseglass6370 said:
I'm going to ahead and assume you have very limited clinical experience. That being said, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and believe you simply still have a lot to learn about medicine.
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Thank you for making that assumption.

Anyway, since all of you are replying seriously to my initial post, it's necessary for me to state that this thread was intended to be a lighthearted joke. I do realize that colorectal surgeons serve an important function.
 
theWUbear said:
Nominating this for most ignorant post of the day
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Haha....especially since colorectal surgery is a fellowship of general surgery, which itself is highly difficult for a caribbean grad to get to begin with.

Colorectal is a field within general surgery like any other. Once you get more clinical experience, you will learn there is nothing really disgusting about any field within medicine. All are necessary in some way. Some people just have different preferences.

For now you should focus on other questions, such as perhaps: "Will I get into medical school?"
 
gettheleadout said:
This seems pretty repetitive so far, I'm just over halfway done, but I think this one has a better feel to it: http://www.smbs.buffalo.edu/RESIDENT/CareerCounseling/interior.htm?self-assessment.htm

Edit: Yeah what morning just put up...guess there isn't much difference, who knew? :shrug:
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Hah, I took that one and got colorectal as number one again. After reading more about it I could definitely see myself being interested. Seems like a lot of interaction with other doctors, diagnostics, and surgical procedures.
 
Emikosma said:
I just hope I never have any of these people as my doctor... really guys, grow up!
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That's the point...you won't.

OP you're going to make a terrible doctor because you don't think colorectal surgery is the best thing since sliced bread.
 
I couldn't do OB/GYN. I could do colorectal surgery. It's not because I'm "immature" or "grossed out" but because I asked a male OB/GYN if he could ever look at them the same way again and he said:

"No."
:scared:
 
jvesco22 said:
That's the point...you won't.

OP you're going to make a terrible doctor because you don't think colorectal surgery is the best thing since sliced bread.
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It's not that he doesn't think colorectal surgery is the best thing since those free 30 second porn clips, it's that he doesn't seem to realize there's a lot of medicine that is just as or more gross than that.

I've cleaned an ostomy stoma many, many times...you get over poop. If there's literally nothing more disgusting in medicine than poop and buttholes (and I know there is) then anyone should be good to go because you just become inured to it after awhile.

I don't endorse usage of SDN Godwin's Law though 😀
 
bold text said:
I fully support increasing awareness of this issue 👍
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You guys are behind. You can get hours of continuous free streaming nowadays.


On a side note, I think my original question has been answered. Mods, please close this thread....
 
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