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re: Non-doctors of the OT: smartest subspecialty
Posted on 2/20/14 at 9:22 pm to GeauxTigers777
Posted on 2/20/14 at 9:22 pm to GeauxTigers777
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Urology
Why anybody would pick this puzzles me.
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Posted on 2/20/14 at 9:23 pm to GeauxTigers777
All proceduralists. Procedures pay these days.
Posted on 2/20/14 at 9:23 pm to GeauxTigers777
I'd imagine clinical pathology would be up there as well.
Posted on 2/20/14 at 9:25 pm to ZacAttack
Reason is tons of technology in the field and you have very few urology emergencies. This means not getting called in. It is also a field where you can choose to make 400-500 and work 4.5 days a week or work 6 days and make 8-1 mil. Very lucrative for the time being
Posted on 2/20/14 at 9:26 pm to GeauxTigers777
I know you asked for non docs, but some if the smartest docs I know are pulmonologists/critical care.
Posted on 2/20/14 at 9:28 pm to DrTyger
I would agree. I guess I was going with most competitive. Which theoretically would mean best boards / resume post med school.
Posted on 2/20/14 at 9:30 pm to GeauxTigers777
Nephrologists
Posted on 2/20/14 at 9:30 pm to GeauxTigers777
Neurosurgeon or research neurologist.
Posted on 2/20/14 at 9:32 pm to GeauxTigers777
quote:
I would agree. I guess I was going with most competitive. Which theoretically would mean best boards / resume post med school.
Which doesn't necessarily equate to smart. Trust me.
Posted on 2/20/14 at 9:36 pm to GeauxTigers777
It depends on what you mean by smart.
By smart do you mean ability to memorize the most stuff? Or actual clinical decision making
Critical care doctors are the smartest clinicians I've worked with
Ortho/derm/plastics/radonc are the "smartest" doctors not because they are the best clinicians but because they made the best board scores. But once they get into that field, they get rather dumb on the common things in a medical sense
By smart do you mean ability to memorize the most stuff? Or actual clinical decision making
Critical care doctors are the smartest clinicians I've worked with
Ortho/derm/plastics/radonc are the "smartest" doctors not because they are the best clinicians but because they made the best board scores. But once they get into that field, they get rather dumb on the common things in a medical sense
Posted on 2/20/14 at 9:43 pm to tiger1014
For your medicine guys: critical care and nephrology
Surgery: neuro and plastics
Derm is definitely is the mix because it is super competitive to get into the residency but you don't have to be smart to be an actual dermatologist.
I wouldn't put Ortho up there even though it can be tough to get into.
Surgery: neuro and plastics
Derm is definitely is the mix because it is super competitive to get into the residency but you don't have to be smart to be an actual dermatologist.
I wouldn't put Ortho up there even though it can be tough to get into.
Posted on 2/20/14 at 9:45 pm to GeauxTigers777
Nuero-opthamologist
Posted on 2/20/14 at 9:48 pm to GeauxTigers777
Chiropractors
Posted on 2/20/14 at 9:48 pm to Kankles
Posted on 2/20/14 at 9:48 pm to OhFace55
Smartest doctors I have met are either internal medicine doctors that specialize in critical care patients or nuerologists that specialize in pediactric encephalopathy.
Posted on 2/20/14 at 9:56 pm to GeauxTigers777
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I would agree. I guess I was going with most competitive. Which theoretically would mean best boards / resume post med school.
Im guessing you are still fairly early in your medical career. You will see a stark change and reversal in what and who you consider smart and dumb. Some specialties are more conducive to allow people to coast and become technicians who dont think. Others require a depth that forces even the most average to further their knowledge base.
As with everything its individually dependent on how good and smart do you want to be, however IMO certain specialties force people to hone their skills and further their knowledge or else due to the consequences being much more severe. And those specialties are nothing like the "most competitive" lists from a med students perspective.
Posted on 2/20/14 at 9:57 pm to OhFace55
Don't forget the radiation oncologists. May not be as competitive, but it is lucrative. And those guys are very smart. Lots of them actually have degrees (including advanced degrees) in physics, engineering, etc and not just normal pre-med degrees in biology, zoology, etc.
Posted on 2/20/14 at 10:02 pm to GeauxTigers777
"Cardio-thoracic medicine" obviously.
From Malice ( LINK)...
From Malice ( LINK)...
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I have an M.D. from Harvard, I am board certified in cardio-thoracic medicine and trauma surgery, I have been awarded citations from seven different medical boards in New England, and I am never, ever sick at sea. So I ask you; when someone goes into that chapel and they fall on their knees and they pray to God that their wife doesn't miscarry or that their daughter doesn't bleed to death or that their mother doesn't suffer acute neural trama from postoperative shock, who do you think they're praying to? Now, go ahead and read your Bible, _Dennis_, and you go to your church, and, with any luck, you might win the annual raffle, but if you're looking for God, he was in operating room number two on November 17, and he doesn't like to be second guessed. You ask me if I have a God complex. Let me tell you something: I am God.
Posted on 2/20/14 at 10:05 pm to Doc Fenton
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I have an M.D. from Harvard, I am board certified in cardio-thoracic medicine and trauma surgery, I have been awarded citations from seven different medical boards in New England, and I am never, ever sick at sea. So I ask you; when someone goes into that chapel and they fall on their knees and they pray to God that their wife doesn't miscarry or that their daughter doesn't bleed to death or that their mother doesn't suffer acute neural trama from postoperative shock, who do you think they're praying to? Now, go ahead and read your Bible, _Dennis_, and you go to your church, and, with any luck, you might win the annual raffle, but if you're looking for God, he was in operating room number two on November 17, and he doesn't like to be second guessed. You ask me if I have a God complex. Let me tell you something: I am God.
Posted on 2/20/14 at 10:05 pm to northshorebamaman
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