Even psychiatry is hotter than ER because at least they have regular work hours. ER doctors are only slightly less crazy and slightly hotter than their patients. It's not super hot, no one says: "Oh man, you're an ER doctor, that's hot," at least no one we know. ER is for crazy people, we all know this. They straddle the hot-crazy axis about as low as you go. Nephrology is about as unhot as a specialty gets, but it's also not real crazy, nephrologist parties are lame. Let's talk about a couple sample specialties. The Official Hot-Crazy Matrix of Medicine: ![]() Your goal, if you're a normal sane person, is to pick a specialty below the hot crazy line, that is a specialty that's at least as hot as it is crazy. In the middle is your hot crazy line, very important that you keep in mind where the hot-crazy line is. No one less than a 4 crazy agrees to spend most of college actually studying followed by 4 years busting their asses to get through med school. Crazy is measured from 4 to 10 because of course there's no such thing as a physician who is not at least a 4 crazy. ![]() You have your crazy axis and your hot axis. ![]() We have developed this over our collective 54 years in medicine. It's everything a young medical student needs to know about picking the specialty that matches their own desire for hotness balanced against their own tolerance of craziness. Disclaimer: This post is from GomerBlog, a satirical site about healthcare.īOSTON - OK, so this is the Universal Hot-Crazy Matrix of Medical Specialties.
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