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Old 05-27-2009, 02:38 PM   #54
Jamiecakes
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My NS wrote an article against cutting NS residency hours.

Wow. Just everything about neurosurgery deserves a wow. From the length and intensity of the training to the size of the paycheck...wow. Still, my neurosurgeon works so hard and such long hours that I wonder when he has time to spend his money? Last year he took a vacation-->to present at a conference.

You have to really love it, I think, to tolerate that kind of grueling intensity for so long.

The road to being a physician is so tough. My son wants to go into pediatric infectious disease and work internationally. I am proud of him and not because he is going to be a doctor but because he is willing to work to long and so hard without much monetary reward.

Maybe I should tell him to go into neurosurgery....except that I would like to see him again someday.
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