| | I know I haven't been updating very much (or at all, depending on how
you want to look at it), but finals are coming up and I'm definitely
stepping it up a notch in terms of studying. I don't want to hit
the same hellish 5-days-before-midterms-oh-my-god rut that I was in a
couple months ago, so I've been pretty consistantly studying for 6-7
hours a day for the past week and a half or so. I don't know how
I would last in med school if I didn't enjoy studying this stuff.
Anyway, I just went to a really awesome ER medicine talk. The guy
gave a very honest presentation of ER medicine... the good, the bad,
the ugly. And there is a lot of each. I guess I'm finding
that to be true for most specialties (want to go through 2 years of
residency, work for 40 hours a week and have no stress? Fine, but
you'll be a GP and make almost nothing. Want to be hitting a half
mil? Neurosurgery may be for you... but you'll wake up at 5AM and
get home to the family at 7 every night... plus call).
There were a couple interesting things about this talk though.
First off, even though he was presenting ER with all its warts, it
still sounds fun as hell. One of the things I'd hate is to lose
all of my medicine (I mean, right now I know all my anatomy. What
happens if you become an opthamologist and focus on the eye?
That's right... you forget almost everything you knew about the rest of
the body). Obviously ER doctors are generalists in some
respect... they see everything, and they see a lot MORE of everything
than GPs do. Also, I know I've got kooky sleep schedules
already... I mean, I stay up until 8AM playing Starcraft with TJ (not
often, mind you, but it does happen from time to time) and of course,
ER docs take shiftwork at all times of the day.
'Course, you have to tell more people that family members have died
than any other specialty. And, you then have to put on your game
face because you have 20 other patients waiting to be seen. And
patients wait for 6 hours to see you, and you bill for a visit and then
receive $.14 on the dollar.
*edit* So I wrote this a couple
days ago and didn't post it, thinking I'd add more. Nope.
Not gonna happen. Studying too much. Catch you after finals.
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