I wish I were a doctor ...

[chris302001]

I was in the class of 2001, and I actually did a bunch of pharmacokinetics for an antisense compound at one time

Thanks Smurf, I still take out the garbage

Very cool. So do you teach preclinicals then?

 

[Raptorex]

What does cakes do?Colonoscopies

He often does anal fistula procedures.

 

[Raptorex]

Very cool. So do you teach preclinicals then?

I teach a full epidemiology course to Occ. Doc residents(typically working on an MPH so they can do research).

that is only like 5% of my job, we can talk offline another time.

 

[chris302001]

I teach a full epidemiology course to Occ. Doc residents(typically working on an MPH so they can do research).

that is only like 5% of my job, we can talk offline another time.

Ahhhh cool. I'd like that alot.

 

[Delinquent]

But do you want to do rads? I mean......no offense, but it sounds boring to me.

Yea man I love it. I can see the potential of getting burned out if all you're doing is reading but I would definitely go the interventional route.

With the importance of radiology nowadays primary and even many specialists rely 100% on the Rad's to give them their diagnosis. From just my personal experience, more and more doctors go fishing instead of actually trying to diagnose their patients clinically. They'll order any and all tests that may show something instead of doing differential's it seems.

I like the fact that I would be that person telling the doctors what is wrong with their patients. That way, I seem to have more of a role in helping the patient rather then being in the background like Rad's were in the past. That's where the much more interesting aspect of interventional comes in to play. You're playing surgeon(sort of) without the crazy schedule of one. Sure, if you work at a large hospital, you're gonna get called in a lot, but a smaller hospital such as the one I work at, they rarely come in. Of course it's only minor procedures such as angio's, IVC placement, biopsies, etc but from what I've seen, I would really enjoy it.

Outside of the fact that I actually like it compared to most, it offers the option of only reading if I would like a more standard Mon-Fri type job which I'm sure I would do eventually.

 

[-Ariel-]

Why laugh>? YOu earned it.
Although when I was in grad school, all my profs were PhDs and we typically called them by their first names at their own request.

Its weird cause, they promote an open mind thinking in being able to develop an ability to move across several viewpoints and see a pattern that my be therapeutic. However, the Dean has requested everyone be addressed as Dr.

 

[chris302001]

Yea man I love it. I can see the potential of getting burned out if all you're doing is reading but I would definitely go the interventional route.

With the importance of radiology nowadays primary and even many specialists rely 100% on the Rad's to give them their diagnosis. From just my personal experience, more and more doctors go fishing instead of actually trying to diagnose their patients clinically. They'll order any and all tests that may show something instead of doing differential's it seems.

I like the fact that I would be that person telling the doctors what is wrong with their patients. That way, I seem to have more of a role in helping the patient rather then being in the background like Rad's were in the past. That's where the much more interesting aspect of interventional comes in to play. You're playing surgeon(sort of) without the crazy schedule of one. Sure, if you work at a large hospital, you're gonna get called in a lot, but a smaller hospital such as the one I work at, they rarely come in. Of course it's only minor procedures such as angio's, IVC placement, biopsies, etc but from what I've seen, I would really enjoy it.

Outside of the fact that I actually like it compared to most, it offers the option of only reading if I would like a more standard Mon-Fri type job which I'm sure I would do eventually.

So your talkin more of interventional rads then trad rad?

 

[Delinquent]

So your talkin more of interventional rads then trad rad?

yea like I said, I would probably get burned out pretty fast if all I was doing was reading. The traditional rad's still do exams but nothing that is anywhere near as interesting as interventional. Actually, none of the procedures that the traditional rad's do are that interesting. Hell most try their hardest to get out of doing them (who really wants to do a barium enema on a 90 year old patient that can't even hold in their own stool or make them drink liquid chalk so they can chuck it back at you in the form of aerosol?) LOL

So yea, interventional all the way at least for a while. I can definitely see the pro's of only reading though as long as I enjoyed it even a little because as soon as something loses its' luster to me, I have to move on. Once I get up in age, I could definitely see sitting back in my office chair reading exams making decent money as a good road to retirement

 

[samoth]

You're the only lawyer I know that I like

And Strefka!!!

 

[-Ariel-]

I've been tossing the idea of Radiology ever since becoming a rad tech. Being a tech to me has become such an underachievement which I didn't think would happen. It was nowhere near challenging which is where my passion for being a Radiologist started to materialize. Speaking with the Rad's at work, they said it's the hardest specialty to get into outside of Dermatology because of the relative cakewalk it is (once you enter the workforce not during school of course) since if you're not doing interventional, you have a Mon-Fri 8-5 job unlike other areas.

Since I already have a wife and a daughter, such a task would be incredibly hard but there have been many that have done such a thing before. I know the odds would be heavily stacked against me but if I actually convinced myself to dedicate the time and effort needed, I could do it. It's convincing myself that's the bitch

My brother is as radiaton oncologist, did his training at MD Anderson In Houston, we are night and day... he's tall, I'm short... had to add this, but he is phenomenal with numbers, i'm phenomenal. j/k... radiology is a very competitive field,however, they are projecting a huge need for doctors by 2012 and an actual shortage believe it or not... so yeah, u may wanna pursue this.