internal medicine doctors are dorks
emergency medicine physicians are
Cowboys
and dermatologists care about nothing
more than money what's the truth about
dr. stereotypes and what is more fiction
than fact let's find out dr. jabal med
school insiders calm you voted for it
and here it is welcome to part 2 of the
dr. stereotypes series in part 1 we
covered surgical specialties such as
plastics neuro surgery orthopedic
surgery urology ob9 and general surgery
now it's time to dive into the non
surgical specialties internal medicine
is the default what most people think
about when they think doctor this is the
specialty you go into for one of three
reasons either you love the idea of
being a hospitalist or primary care
doctor you plan on specializing after
residency and fellowship such as
cardiology or gastroenterology or you
didn't fall in love with any other
specialty so this becomes the default
the stereotype of internal medicine
amongst medical students and physicians
is that they love thinking and talking
more than they love doing it's often
affectionately called mental
masturbation the reason the stereotype
exists is that on inpatient medicine
team spent several hours sometimes even
up to half a day rounding on patients
and discussing the minor nuances of
which antibiotic to prescribe or the
minutia of an obscure disease surgeon
personalities such as yours truly are
often less enthusiastic about spending
such a long time rounding and prefer to
be getting their hands dirty but as with
most stereotypes that isn't fully
accurate within internal medicine there
are two main ways of practicing
inpatient and outpatient inpatient
medicine is where you take care of
patients who are inpatient meaning they
are staying in the hospital on average
these patients are sicker and more
complex from a medical management
perspective with outpatient medicine
you're seeing patients in the clinic
when you think of going to the doctor
this is generally what you think of you
have an appointment go to clinic wait an
excessively long time and then see your
physician for 15 minutes to discuss your
concerns in contrast to internal
medicine which is primarily focused on
adult patients family medicine is
focused less on a specific population
like adults for internal medicine or
children for Pediatrics or women
gynaecology and it's instead focused on
the social unit of the family the
differences and similarities between
family medicine and internal medicine
are often confusing both residences are
generally three years however internal
medicine has much more inpatient and ICU
or intensive care unit training internal
med also has significant training in
certain sub specialties like
endocrinology Rheumatology infectious
disease cardiology and the like
while outpatient clinic medicine is
included it's less heavily emphasized
with family medicine outpatient medicine
is the primary focus although they do
receive a bit of gynecology surgery
musculoskeletal and other specialty
training in short family medicine places
an emphasis on outpatient medicine
continuity of care health maintenance
and disease prevention internal medicine
given its deeper adult medicine training
is often better suited for managing
adult patients with complex medical
histories the stereotype of family
medicine is that you generally go into
the specialty if you're not a
particularly strong student compared to
other specialties it's less competitive
the average board scores are low and the
pay is towards the bottom of the stack
that being said I know several brilliant
medical students that went into family
medicine because they're passionate
about the field not because they
couldn't do something else and plus a
low or high board score is not
necessarily predictive of whether or not
you'll be a good physician if you agree
let me know with a thumbs up on this
video these next few specialties have
something that most others don't a more
balanced lifestyle anesthesiologists get
a bad rap for being lazy and it's not
hard to see why during surgeries or
other procedures and it's the geologists
are busy at work at the beginning of the
procedure at the end of the procedure
and at brief moments in the middle of
the procedure however compared to
surgeons who are constantly on there is
a lot more downtime during cases in the
operating room I've seen
anesthesiologists browsing reddit
checking email or watching videos on
more than one occasion
anesthesiologists often joke about the
blood-brain barrier and they aren't
referring to the semipermeable border
separating circulating blood from the
central nervous system within the human
body they're talking about the drapes in
the operating room that separate the
surgeons the blood
from the anesthesiologists the brains
being an anesthesiologist is harder than
it looks when things are calm and steady
all is well but when a patient is
unstable and rapidly decompensating you
won't be envious of their position it's
not surprising that given the stress of
their job and access to drugs they have
some of the highest rates of substance
abuse all in all it is a great specialty
your hours are more flexible compared to
other specialties pay is relatively good
it's less competitive to match into and
you still get to work with your hands
doing procedures that being said there
are two deal-breakers ego and operating
if putting aside your ego is tough it
may be hard being second-in-command in
the operating room or being yelled at by
a cranky surgeon who quite frankly has
no business to be yelling at you and if
you love the art challenge and
excitement of operating it's tough to
forever be on the other side of the
curtain to brainy to get your hands
dirty if you like computers more than
you like people then radiology might be
the field for you radiologists spend
their entire day and dark reading rooms
looking over radiographs MRIs and other
imaging some say radiologists are
vampires but others claim to have
spotted a lone radiologist walking
outside the hospital during daylight
sounds like Bigfoot if you ask me if you
don't like patients and computers aren't
your jam then consider pathology
pathologists are stereotyped as lacking
social skills being highly introverted
and are not keen on interacting with
those pesky Homo sapiens while
pathologists generally don't have
patient interaction or continuity they
are regularly working with physicians of
other specialties just as radiologists
do for that reason you wouldn't get very
far in pathology or any specialty for
that matter if you couldn't work with
other people as part of a team if you
love money but don't like working too
hard
dermatology is the field for you just
know that there are many other people
like you and for that reason it's
incredibly challenging to match into
derm if you want to call yourself a
surgeon without doing any surgery then
join the military and become a general
medical officer or GMO for short a GMO
is essentially a primary care doctor
plus they're colloquially referred to as
surgeons such as flight surgeons dive
surgeons etc however they are not actual
surgeons after completing their intern
year GMOs are assigned to different
units where they undergo additional
training to best support their team for
example Navy flight doctors would go to
flight school where they will learn not
only about the physiology involved in
flying fighter jets and helicopters but
they themselves will also learn to fly
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is factual much of the stereotypes as
listed here are just plain jokes
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