Compare radiology and dermatology please!

afan
Thu, 16 Jun 2005 22:05:31 +0000

I’m sorry, but this is the wrong way to pick a specialty.

There are people in all fields who work hard, and people in all fields who work part time. The llifestyle after training is largely controllable in most fields (only somewhat less so in surgery).

During training, you live the life of a resident, and that can be very busy. Radiology residents work quite hard.

If you go through with medicine, you will discover that being good at it will be far more important to you than you can imagine right now. You need to choose something where the thought processes and demands fit your personal strengths.

If you choose your field as one with the lightest workload you will be a terrible doctor, and you will wonder how something so great (getting into medical school) could have turned out so badly.