Anyone ever consider becoming a surgeon?

[Horticulture]

I'm seriously considering this right now.
Do you think the 10 + years of post college education and debt required to finance it is worth it - especially with the malpractice lawsuits that seem so common?

 

[totalcommand]

<--------- hoping


There are many kinds of surgeons, each with their own malpractice frequencies. If you really like doing it, you won't care about the lawsuits.

 

[T3C]

If it is something that YOU want to do.

 

[Anubis]

my brother in law is, he starts his resedency in june, for Ortho

 

[totalcommand]

once you become a full surgeon, you will also quickly (prob 5 years or so) repay your debts.

about the extra 10 years, well, if you really want to become a surgeon, it won't matter.

what kind of surgeon do you want to be?

 

[StageLeft]

Don't worry about it from a money perspective because it's always going to be very lucrative.

I'd thought about being a doctor and then realized that the effort required was too obscene for the returns. I don't care about people enough in the right way to want to subject myself through years of intense school. I'm also close to enough doctors to know that it's a high stress job day-to-day with a lot of hours. The salary isn't enough for that. If it was all money I'd go to saudi arabia for a few years.

When I'm at work and I screw up I stay late and rewrite some code. When you're a surgeon and you screw up you've just irreperably fvcked somebody up. I don't know how often surgeons dwell on that, but medicine is known to be high stress and high pressure.

It's an admirable job, but if you want just work towards it and you can always back out later on.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Well, im a sophmore in the premed program, my main worry is that i will spend my 10 years in school, get tons of debt and then......


SOCIALIZED MEDICINE COMES TO THE US

i will then blow my brains out if i had finished all that work and only making about as much as a high school teacher and be in that much debt that i could never pay off on that income.

 

[cerebusPu]

jist pick some specialty where its not as stressful but still high paying.
like for instance, radiology is a great specialty.

theres also specialties under surgery like..
general <-not a 'specialty'
cardiac
neuro
ortho

than theres minimally invasive interventions like
laparoscopic
interventional radiology

my favorite is minimally invasive laparoscopic cardiac surgery.
http://www.intuitivesurgical.com/products/da_vinci.html

<- worked with one of those^