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Originally Posted by madnak
I don't really understand, having never done any of it. You don't seem like the "insane go getter" type, which is how I view surgeons, but I guess if surgery is like playing video games or something that's awesome. Anyway, congratulations on having no trouble getting laid, like, ever again.
Yeah I only really fit the surgeon mold on a superficial level, in that I am arrogant and kind of a dick. I'm not nearly as meticulous and obsessive and anal as many surgeons are. We'll see how it works out, but I think I'll be fine....I've got role models in surgery that I think are very similar to me, that are successful, so I think it should be ok.
Basically, every field of medicine breaks down about like this, imo: 10% thinking/being smart/knowing things (the fun part), and then 90% something else. In surgery, that something else is cutting people open. In medicine, that something else is rounding, and sucking up to patients, and talk therapy, and coddling. I'm much more interested in the 10% than the 90% even in surgery, but its the field that has by FAR the most tolerable 90%.
Some fields, like anesthesia and neurology, are probably more like 20/80, but the 80 in those is far worse than the 90 in surgery, so on balance surgery is preferable.
And who knows, maybe I will actually become more dedicated and focused and detail-oriented now that I've found something that I actually really want, for pretty much the first time in my life. This was honestly the first time I can remember, not involving girls, that I actually stayed up all night stressed out that I might not get it. Even for med school I didnt really care all that much since I didnt really want to go to medical school anyway, so if I didnt get in, oh well, I'd just do something else. This was the first time I ever looked "60 years of misery and loathing" straight in the face.
Good thing I matched!!