My Mom is an RN and always told me I’d make a great surgeon, because I’m detail-oriented and have the personality for it.
In the same breath, she will also claim that all surgeons are assholes. :dubious: Thanks, mom.
I would probably be a veterinarian rather than a people doc. I’d still get to do surgeries – hell, I’d get to do everything. I’ve always respected vets because they not only have to learn all the systems in a given species, they have to learn several different species. They do diagnostics and surgeries. They do their own x-rays. It’s a much more generalized sort of doctoring where they get to wear many hats, rather than just specialize in one very specific system on just one species.
I’d probably be a surgeon. I do surgeries on rodents now (and have for years), and not to toot my own horn too hard, but I’ve always been really good at it. Even back in grad school when we were learning dissections for structural neuroanatomy, the professors would ask to keep my completed dissections as examples to use for the med school class that came next. I’m precise, methodical, and I have great hand-eye coordination, so I always thought it would be worth giving it a try if I didn’t really like what I’m doing now.
I’d be a terrible one, most likely. But I might do OK with sleep disorders - it’s something I at least know a fair bit about, and it’s fascinating. Not sure what specialty that actually is; my consultant was formerly a specialist in asthma.
You can go into sleep medicine from a wide variety of specialties, including psychology, neurology, internal medicine, family medicine, ENT, and anesthesiology.
This one. Currently, I take the pictures that the Radiologists read, so I usually have a pretty good idea of what they’re looking for. Unfortunately, the internists/orthopods/etc. sometimes don’t. Don’t get me started.
But it takes about 12-13 years from start to finish to become a Rad. I don’t think anything could hold my interest that long.
