Is becoming a neurosurgeon really as difficult as they say? - Page 6

RileyJohn · 06-04-2009, 10:07 PM

really? that's all? Well that is comforting.

Bigredmed · 06-05-2009, 12:56 AM

Mike, it wouldn't surprise me. Transmission rates of most things are very low (I happen to know that the transmission rate of Hep C is 1.5% when the inoculation happens with a large bore needle - 18 gauge or larger - and the needlestick is deep and significant. I know this because a buddy of mine, an anesthesia resident, had a stick with a Hep C+ patient a while a back and I was trying to make him feel better. Presumably it'd be even lower with smaller needles and less significant pokes). Given that HIV garners immediate antiretroviral therapy, that transmission rate is understandably even lower and it would make sense that any actual infections would have been early on before the development and use of those drugs.

asmallchild · 06-06-2009, 10:03 AM

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thanks big red. The coat does you well.
burnout probably is bigger hazzard in derm, radio, anesh -- maybe why large suicide rate.
The rest of hazards (HIV) probably actually higher in surgical field as is malpractice.
think smallchild is just that and should be ignored.

Funny a small child would have more insight into medicine than you.

Burnout is a larger risk in derm, rads, and anesthesia? Sounds like someone is jealous they missed the boat on the ROAD specialties.

I'd also love to hear where fellow physicians refer to radiology as radio and anesthesiology as anesh.

:eyeroll:

asmallchild · 06-06-2009, 10:04 AM

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Mike, it wouldn't surprise me. Transmission rates of most things are very low (I happen to know that the transmission rate of Hep C is 1.5% when the inoculation happens with a large bore needle - 18 gauge or larger - and the needlestick is deep and significant. I know this because a buddy of mine, an anesthesia resident, had a stick with a Hep C+ patient a while a back and I was trying to make him feel better. Presumably it'd be even lower with smaller needles and less significant pokes). Given that HIV garners immediate antiretroviral therapy, that transmission rate is understandably even lower and it would make sense that any actual infections would have been early on before the development and use of those drugs.

I believe Hep B is the one with the largest transmission rate via needlesticks and it's still a ridiculously low %.