for people in surgery

Bigredmed
Sat, 03 Nov 2007 02:07:33 +0000

I agree. You can’t let your health be a burden at the moment. Does it mean I think you’ll be able to be a surgeon? Not necessarily. Many schools have physical performance requirements, and you’ll have to let them decide what your disability means.

That said, there are many things in surgery where three dimensional structures are projected as two dimensional images (ie laproscopic surgeries). As such, a lack of depth perception is not a burden in those scenarios.

Further, look at your big picture goals. Could you be happy as a physician who wasn’t a surgeon? There are many aspects of medicine in which visual acuity is not a major concern…could you be happy doing one of those things? If you truly, without a doubt, believe you cannot, then I think you need to re-evaluate exactly why you want to be a physician. Look big picture and determine what really draws you to medicine.