re: Are the ROAD specialities still the best in medicine?

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EM is a bubble in medicine. There's no way anyone can enjoy a specialty where nurses start/do your work up, you only rule out a few things and you deal with the dregs of society. Wait until you start working, it's not normal/sustainable to have a schedule that constantly changes.

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I enjoy the hell out of it. EM docs are some of the happiest around. Burnout rates are no higher than in other specialties. And you have a very myopic view of EM if you think that that is what it's all about.

As far as the schedule goes, I hate the idea of a 9-5. I love night shifts. And it's pretty great being able to work less than two weeks out of the month and have the rest of that time to relax and enjoy life, travel, etc. You aren't pinned down in any one location, and it's the most in demand specialty right now because it's a money maker for the hospital.

To quote the neurosurgeon I recently saw about a disk issue, "EM? Best specialty in all of medicine."

Also, not having call is awesome. I'm not a big fan of 12 hour shifts, but a lot of docs are. And not every hospital does 12s. A lot do 10s or 8s.

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PM&R may have a good lifestyle but who actually wants to do what they do?

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Plenty of people, apparently. Same question can be asked for many specialties. Who wants to deal with nasty vaginas 24/7? Not me, but lots of people still go into Ob.