area of medicine

[chiloxy]

what area of medicine and why?

[argazul]

Neurology (maybe NS depending on steps). cuz its all in the brain and i wanna to brain tumor research. Just love it.

[swimchick]

endocrinology or oncology....my two favorite areas of research and they're both just fascinating fields although I'm sure it will be depressing at times.

[clive]

plastic surgery because i love skin

[911Med]

Geriatrics - because everyone gets old.

(I might sell t-shirts with that phrase)

[chubee_85]

Neurology - bcuz im good at it, it interest me, i like control so im striving for the control center!!

[Laconic]

Radiology- love to see the insides :)

[Shadowstar]

Pathology - cause I don't like dealing with grumpy patients...in that lab room its just you, the microscope, and the music playing from the radio in the background. :)

[Stalwart]

Cardiology - because without a heart...you are...heartless :)

[kaligirl8]

Ob/Gyn because you get to help bring a new life into the world! Oh and because male Ob/Gyns kinda creep me out :bored:

[islandthrift]

Ob/Gyn because you get to help bring a new life into the world! Oh and because male Ob/Gyns kinda creep me out :bored:

Hey! My dad's an OB/Gyn!!! hehe...on a more serious note if you have any questions I can pass them along for you!

[BlessedDR]

Pediatrics because they are so special and innocent. I can go on and on, but when you see kids you see God's favor...and everyday becomes a blessing

[jim]

IM hospitalist is the way to go. right now, there are 8 jobs ot each doc. the pay is off the charts, and the time you work is the least of just anout any specialty.


by the way..peds...kids are great..if they are orphans. i did one summer of little league umpiring and that was enough to realise i didnt want to do anything involving kids when i got older. parents suck!!!

[911Med]

My uncle was a department chief at a Top 2 hospital and he told me that hospitalist is the way to go - especially if you are willing to take a travel assignment and work in selected cities. From an academic perspective, you see everything and your able to make your bills - which given that EVERY student loan company is going defunct, I may need to seek mafia loanshark help in paying for my 4 years.

[BlessedDR]

IM hospitalist is the way to go. right now, there are 8 jobs ot each doc. the pay is off the charts, and the time you work is the least of just anout any specialty.


by the way..peds...kids are great..if they are orphans. i did one summer of little league umpiring and that was enough to realise i didnt want to do anything involving kids when i got older. parents suck!!!

lol that's funny...i agree parents do suck a lot of the timewhat exactly is IM hospitalist?

[thinking]

Either Oncology or Clinical Radiologist.....I have personally been affected by cancer my entire life and I want to help patients, as well as their family members in dealing with this disease. Whether it be as the main physician or the radiologist.

[jim]

IM hospitalist is internal medicine, but inpatient only. its not quite critical care, though you do alot of critical care work. you dont see pts in an office(so no overhead bills). you usually work around 15 to 16 shifts a month. starting pay straight out of resiedency is runnng around 200K nowadays. malpractice is paid by the hospital.

[BlessedDR]

IM hospitalist is internal medicine, but inpatient only. its not quite critical care, though you do alot of critical care work. you dont see pts in an office(so no overhead bills). you usually work around 15 to 16 shifts a month. starting pay straight out of resiedency is runnng around 200K nowadays. malpractice is paid by the hospital.

wowzers!! lol...can I do IM and work mostly w/peds?.....maybe IM at a childrens hospital. Or am I making up specialties?

[rokshana]

wowzers!! lol...can I do IM and work mostly w/peds?.....maybe IM at a childrens hospital. Or am I making up specialties?


no an IM hospitalist will deal with inpatient ADULT pts.

but there maybe a Peds hospitalist track- dunno...

of course if you do Med/Peds then you could do both.

[psych_md]

I am of course partial to psychiatry; with the baby boomer generation getting older there is a great demand for geriatric psychiatrists. I had a part time offer for 10 hours a week at a small gero psych unit (10 beds) 15k per month medical director salary (not including billing). Not bad for a less than part time gig!

[awdc]

Emergency Medicine. A lot of variety, a lot of procedures, seeing immediate results of your treatment, saving lives almost daily, definitely preventing disabilities daily, very little non-clinical work, no call, never being paged after work, medical codes and trauma codes are cool (not so much for the patient), full-time work is about 14 shifts per month as an attending.

[jim]

ER...lots of pscyh patients, lots of people who you want to say either"whatwere you thinking?" or "so why are you here again?" 90% of what you see in an ER on some days is a waste of your time.

pysch is right, huge demand for psych, huge shortage. i am trying to bribe him away from his cuch job to a cush job here in south carolina.

[psych_md]

seems to me that Peg Leg Pete has spoken fondly of cool sea breezes off the Carolina coast:)

[jjmalu]

I am of course partial to psychiatry; with the baby boomer generation getting older there is a great demand for geriatric psychiatrists. I had a part time offer for 10 hours a week at a small gero psych unit (10 beds) 15k per month medical director salary (not including billing). Not bad for a less than part time gig!


What do you think about the internel med/ psych programs out there. Six year residency programs, but you get to do both. Do you think they are worth it or is it better to just go for a fellowship in just one of the fields?

[NYladoo]

What do you think about the internel med/ psych programs out there. Six year residency programs, but you get to do both. Do you think they are worth it or is it better to just go for a fellowship in just one of the fields?

Of course people love ER... if it takes more than an hour to workup a patient, admit to medicine. ;) Requires good skills with telephone communication (i.e. paging IM admitting resident). Don't be offended ER residents and future ER applicants... I'm just playing around. :D:cool:;)

[awdc]

ER...lots of pscyh patients, Not my favorite patient type but often easily worked up and then medically cleared for psych to take care of.
lots of people who you want to say either"whatwere you thinking?" or "so why are you here again?" I like the "what were you thinking?" crowd... too funny sometimes. Why do you think ED docs have the coolest stories?;)
90% of what you see in an ER on some days is a waste of your time. Definitely not in my ED! It's rare that I can get away with admitting less than 25-30% of the patients I see. Of those that get sent home, most had legitimate concerns. Besides, sometimes it's just nice to have something come in that you can just easily treat and discharge. Seeing patients is not a waste of my time. It's not any less acute than what would be seen in a primary care clinic. And most of the time, the fast-track/urgent care part of the ED takes care of it. What IS a waste of time for me are the endless amounts of paperwork, forms, dealing with insurance companies/HMO's, "family meetings," etc. that are thankfully very much minimized in Emergency Medicine.

Overall, Emergency Medicine is a specialty where you still get to see lots of cool stuff and do a lot cool stuff. Again, lots of variety on a regular basis... from the non-urgent complaints to the true critical emergencies.

[awdc]

Of course people love ER... if it takes more than an hour to workup a patient, admit to medicine. ;) Requires good skills with telephone communication (i.e. paging IM admitting resident). Don't be offended ER residents and future ER applicants... I'm just playing around. :D:cool:;)

Yeah, yeah... we've heard it all before.:roll: We make fun of the medicine folks, too. Medicine docs have all the time in the world to discuss eloquently about the least critical aspects... no wonder it takes them over an hour to work up a patient, even after we've gotten all those labs and imaging.;) :cool: All in good fun... I do appreciate those that do internal medicine. I would be pulling my hair out if I had to do the job of an internist.

[jim]

hahaha...i had an ER doc tell me i ordered more studies on an admit then he even knew existed. i do have a knack for finding zebras though. family meetings do suck. the dumber the family, the longer the meeting. and if you spend an hour working up a patient for admit, you will not survive as a hospitalist. i do appreciate the ER docs though. they weed out the stuff that would make me crazy.

[Sheri]

definately anesthesiology------pain reducer, sick patients need the "cocktails" although i heard after a while, you get bored of the job....we shall see

[NYladoo]

hahaha...i had an ER doc tell me i ordered more studies on an admit then he even knew existed. i do have a knack for finding zebras though. family meetings do suck. the dumber the family, the longer the meeting. and if you spend an hour working up a patient for admit, you will not survive as a hospitalist. i do appreciate the ER docs though. they weed out the stuff that would make me crazy.

My post was meant to be in a light-hearted fashion, which I see that it was received in that manner. When I said one hour to work-up a patient, that included time waiting for labs, waiting for the patient to get CXR, CT, and receive those results. If it takes too long, the patient gets admitted to medicine, sometimes being discharged within hours of admission. With that being said, ER docs are under a tremendous time restraint to see ALOT of patients (especially in underserved areas) and have to make judgment calls, sometimes being forced to admit more patients that need to be.

[911Med]

I was actually thinking of proctology because I wanted a new perspective on life...

[Gator98MD]

What's this about the infamous Peg leg Pete? Has there been a spotting of this bloke? Has he sailed back from the bowels of the caribbean to impart psychiatric wellness? Do Tell!!! I do miss hearing from the original PlanetRoss posters.

[psych_md]

They tell me that PLP has left his lair in the Amazon Rain forest and has recently completed an electroconvulsive fellowship course at Duke University. He has this to say about the experience.

"Arrrgh In my day I could induce a seizure after night and a bottle o' rum with a tavern wench!"

Not very conventional wisdom but I hear old PLP has reformed a bit these days. We need to obtain a collection of the best PLP quotes. Does anyone still have a copy of the original PLP story?

Peace

[thethom]

There's nothing as satisfying as surgery, and whats better than a surgical specialty where you don't have to deal much with insurance issues. Plastics is the way to go..!

[Gator98MD]

I wonder how Keithom is doing these days? Didnt he end up at brown? I guess there are not many of the originals around anymore. Sad indeed! Nothing but these young bucks nowadays.

[jim]

gator, i remember when you were a young buck!! now you are weeks away from being an.....attending.

when you want more money and less work, call me. ;)