how reckless is it to pref my surgery rotation first to just get it over with
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Replying to @MarkHoofnagle @traependergrast
I put mine first for the same reason and ended up becoming a surgeon.
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What did you think you wanted to do before that?
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Academic internal medicine, either oncology or cardiology.
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Same. I thought cardiology. Way off.
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Replying to @MarkHoofnagle @gorskon and
One of my mentors, after she found out, said, “why? You’re good at thinking!” It was hilarious. And I still think plenty. I didnt go into *ortho* after all.
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Although I never went as far as to buy into the pro-surgery propaganda that my surgery attending liked to say ("Surgery is just like medicine, except that we operate too"), there is still quite a bit of thinking in general surgery, particularly critical care and oncology.
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Replying to @gorskon @MarkHoofnagle and
"Surgery is just like medicine, except that we operate too" makes me think of the fictional medical world of Grey's Anatomy.
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Surgical critical care comes very close to that characterization. I’d put any SICU attending I’ve ever worked with against any MICU attending in terms of sheer critical care acumen.
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