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June 21, 2006
BehindTheMedspeak: How to choose your medical specialty
Pretty much right on.
Bonus: here's 99% of a dermatology residency, as related by a senior dermatology resident back when I was rotating through derm in med school:
"Wet on the dry, dry on the wet, if that doesn't work, steroids."
I suspect it's still good 95% of the time.
[via Pete Wright, The Huffington Post, Kevin, MD and Scienceblogs.com.
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I always knew I should have been a psychiatrist. Now I have empirical evidence. ;)
Posted by: Shawn Lea | Jun 21, 2006 5:02:29 PM
dad and one brother -- nice guys in anesthesia
best friend from college -- nice guy in anesthesia
driven, intense brother -- orthopedic surgery, academic medicine
Posted by: Mb | Jun 21, 2006 4:54:01 PM
Hmmm.
Where would Obstetrics & Gynecology sit?
Medicine?
That one confused me.
Medicine?
Does this chart lump all the rest of the specialties under Medicine?
My brother is a Pathologist. He fit the chart.
My Dad was an OB/GYN. He might fit in that Medicine chart point, if you don't consider freshly minted babies as children (Hey, he checked them out, helped where needed and passed them on to the Peds folks).
Posted by: mattp9 | Jun 21, 2006 4:27:41 PM
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