I wish I were a doctor ...

[Delinquent]

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.

That's one thing that I don't understand and maybe Chris or MM could jump in since they would definitely know more than me. I definitely agree with the shortage but what I don't understand is that from speaking with the Rad's, it seems that it's extremely hard to even be accepted in to the school. From that, it seems that either there aren't enough schools or they severely limit the amount of students they accept?

How many students are generally in a class during Med school? Is the number kept low because the amount of material covered is better taught to a smaller class? If there is such a shortage especially for American doctors, why don't the schools allow larger class sizes.

Again, I am completely ignorant when it comes to med school so you guys would probably be the best people to ask here

 

[LoneTree]

The best parts of being a doctor are:

Seeing naked women.
Sometimes getting away with a traffic ticket.

That's what a doctor friend of mine tells me.

 

[-Ariel-]

The best parts of being a doctor are:

Seeing naked women.
Sometimes getting away with a traffic ticket.

That's what a doctor friend of mine tells me.

My uncle, who is internal meds, but works as ER doc as well got pulled over and told the cop that he was late for the ER, the cop gave him a ticket, and my uncle told him that if he were ever to go to the ER in his hospital needing treatment, the joke was gonna be on him.
The cop called the administrator and my uncle had to hear how inappropriate he was, however, he didn't get chewed out, just admonished slightly.
They don't get out of tickets anymore.
BTW, my uncle didn't mean it, he would help anyone ever who came in needing it... but hotheads say what hotheads say.

 

[chris302001]

My uncle, who is internal meds, but works as ER doc as well got pulled over and told the cop that he was late for the ER, the cop gave him a ticket, and my uncle told him that if he were ever to go to the ER in his hospital needing treatment, the joke was gonna be on him.
The cop called the administrator and my uncle had to hear how inappropriate he was, however, he didn't get chewed out, just admonished slightly.
They don't get out of tickets anymore.
BTW, my uncle didn't mean it, he would help anyone ever who came in needing it... but hotheads say what hotheads say.

+1

 

[chris302001]

That's one thing that I don't understand and maybe Chris or MM could jump in since they would definitely know more than me. I definitely agree with the shortage but what I don't understand is that from speaking with the Rad's, it seems that it's extremely hard to even be accepted in to the school. From that, it seems that either there aren't enough schools or they severely limit the amount of students they accept?

How many students are generally in a class during Med school? Is the number kept low because the amount of material covered is better taught to a smaller class? If there is such a shortage especially for American doctors, why don't the schools allow larger class sizes.

Again, I am completely ignorant when it comes to med school so you guys would probably be the best people to ask here

class size is about 60-as much as 250 i think. MY class size was 135. Medical school is hard. Really hard. But class size doesnt really matter I dont think. There's a shortage of primary care b/c people cant go into primary care and even pay off their loans. If they made medical school more affordable, it would help a lot with the percieved shortage. Other specialties have a surplus.

 

[chris302001]

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

Not when all of this is outsourced to India.....its started to happen already and I doubt it slows down...

Good luck if you decide to persue interventional. Tough stuff to get!

 

[PICK3]

I want my license plate to read:

VAG_MD

 

[LoneTree]

My uncle, who is internal meds, but works as ER doc as well got pulled over and told the cop that he was late for the ER, the cop gave him a ticket, and my uncle told him that if he were ever to go to the ER in his hospital needing treatment, the joke was gonna be on him.
The cop called the administrator and my uncle had to hear how inappropriate he was, however, he didn't get chewed out, just admonished slightly.
They don't get out of tickets anymore.
BTW, my uncle didn't mean it, he would help anyone ever who came in needing it... but hotheads say what hotheads say.

That is why my post said 'sometimes'.
Your uncle was inappropriate. Even more inappropriate (actually, unprofessional) to say 'joke will be on you'.
An Illinois Chief Justice of Supreme Court tried to get away with speeding ticket by telling the cop who he was. He almost got impeached.

A sensible doctor would be courteous, and after giving his excuse, leave it to the cop to give the ticket or not.

Instead of arguing with the cop, he could have used that defence with the judge.

 

[hog#head#cheese]

I want my license plate to read:

KOK_LKR

 

[Delinquent]

Not when all of this is outsourced to India.....its started to happen already and I doubt it slows down...

Good luck if you decide to persue interventional. Tough stuff to get!

The problem with that is medicare won't cover any exam that is read outside of the US. Maybe this has changed since the last time I talked to people about it but with the explosion of teleradiology, medicare finally had to speak up because it was being outsourced to Australia and India so they couldn't verify the legitimacy of the doctors reading them.

Have you heard anything about this?