[uchihaitachi]

Seeking advice for going into medicine!

 

[Tadgh]

I'm not in the healthcare business myself, but I have a family member who's an experienced pediatrician and gynecologist, and has gotten very far in his fields, and has spent time in a wide range of medical professions. Do you have a specialization in mind or do you wanna go and do a general medicine course at 3rd level?

I don't have any experience of my own, but I'd be happy to pass on some questions if that'd help!

 

[RedJohn456]

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[ProtegeManiac]

  Seeking advice for going into medicine!

 

Just sharing something rewarding about our family doctors - my pediatrician is now the pediatrician to two of my god children, which is really amazing to all of us. She was also the pediatrician of the mom of one of those kids. Her husband is also an ENT who operated on my brother before, and now he takes care of my ears and we chat about audio, and he was also a godfather at the wedding of my friend who married the wife's patient.

 

On the flipside though I read a psychology paper before about how among doctors the most stressful jobs are ER surgeons and pediatric oncology. I think the latter was worse, since for the former that includes people who would be bored otherwise (I think it included emergency responders and maybe military medics, so maybe "ER surgeon" is the incorrect term), while the latter is absolutely never exciting and then you have to watch children wasting away in the cancer ward. That said, the job of pediatric oncology research is extremely important, so if you take up that specialization, work primarily in a lab, not a hospital, unless one nearby has a manpower deficiency.

 

[JK1]

I have a good friend who is a pediatrician. He often complains about how little money he is making, and how competitive it is in getting and keeping patients. He is in the US in the suburbs of a major city. Things might be very different in other countries. In the US, most physicians don't seem to be making as much(on an inflation adjusted basis) as physicians made 50 years ago, or even 20 years ago. Expenses are high, and insurance only pays so much.

 

[ProtegeManiac]

  I have a good friend who is a pediatrician. He often complains about how little money he is making, and how competitive it is in getting and keeping patients. He is in the US in the suburbs of a major city. Things might be very different in other countries. In the US, most physicians don't seem to be making as much(on an inflation adjusted basis) as physicians made 50 years ago, or even 20 years ago. Expenses are high, and insurance only pays so much.

 

Part of the problem may be because there is a healthy distrust of doctors in the US, what with that guy who lost the chance to patent a vaccine starting an all-out propaganda campaign to claim that all other vaccines cause autism. 

 

[ns6490]

  Seeking advice for going into medicine!

What is your question?

 

[uchihaitachi]

What factors I should take into consideration when applying to British medical schools?

 

[ns6490]

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