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what is scope creep...as soon as i finish family medicine....i am not sure if i will work as a full time family doctor or i might end up doing something completely different

Yep and I know people say that people shouldn't go into medicine because of the money or lifestyle but come on you shouldn't be sacrificing your livelihood to survive. So I think it's a fair question to ask since outside factors such as family, hobbies, and kids matter

This is why i chose radiology

I'm thinking of Dermatology because of lifestyle but I really want to do surgery!!! Why isn't there a surgical speciality with good lifestyle?! 😩

@@user-tp5qu7zu2l if you're gonna get it into dermatology just because of the lifestyle, remember that it's gonna be just as worse. Enjoying what you do in everything is important, choose wisely! 💫

@@bananalol2065 ikr, that's why I'm soo confused as to what I should do 😣

wholeheartedly agree

Right, you wanna be on call when ur 60? It's the most important factor.

Agree.

@@KB-TAYLOR Well what you find interesting still matters. Nobody can truly be happy or even stomach having to work a job they never loved for 40+ years. This is why so many doctors are killing themselves. Consider ALL the main pillars of choosing a specialty, never just one of them.

The real unpopular opinion is salary being the most important aspect.

Good point

Means free time is better than exciting jobs?

​@@osirusj275no. It means no job is exciting enough to take up all of your time

@@osirusj275 Exactly. Who needs exciting jobs when you can rather have the time to live an exciting life?

Surgeons have a high suicide rate.

Wat was the conclusion afterall, did he cheat his wife??😅😅

@@shreyasrivastava7745 Yes he was cheating with a nurse at the hospital.

in my opinion its defenitely not worth ....so i did MD internal medicine 🤩

Haha that’s convenient t

Never know! You might have a convo with somebody who's considering medical school and your insight might actually help them on their journey!

me too lmao.

Same here🤣🤣🤣

I'm a doctor and I thought this was a good take on it :)

@@yonpark6245 I'm just nobody, but I approve your message.

Thanks for sharing!

This comment gave me so much hope as a prospective med student Thank you for sharing 💕

Thank you for sharing your experience. I am about to start my surgical job but people always make me question my decision and give me negative thoughts as if I'm going to regret my choice in a couple of years. I believe that work life balance is a choice and it is doable! only lazy ones blame not having a balance on their chosen specialities

There are a couple of very important differences between men and women. But good for you.

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Yes please do

Agree ✨

Please 🙏🏽

I just posted this on another video. So I thought I share: I Can't tell you what's like to be an oncologists since it's been only two weeks since starting fellowship, but I can tell you what I know about the field and the application process. HO obviously is a subspecialty of IM. It's a 3 year fellowship. There are some subspecialties, but all of them except for transplant is non-ACGME accredited. HO is very research focused because our understanding of cancer is still at its infancy. What this means is that we are making medical decisions largely based off clinical trials rather than application of physiology and molecular biology. I would love to tell you we know the exact mechanism of every cancer and have tools to combat these abnormalities, but the science is simply not there yet. This is a great career opportunity if your goals is to advance the practice of oncology. There are two spectrums of HO fellowship: research and clinical. If your goal is to organize physician initiated clinical trials (rather than drug company initiated), you are going to want to go to a more research focused institution. These are typically your most "prestigious" centers like MD Anderson, Sloan memorial, NIH, Farber-Dana, etc.. (it's actually Dana-Farber, but Dr. Sidney Farber is actually the physician-scientist that founded the institution and Dana is just the money people). These institutions are typically 18 months of learning HO, and then 18 months of research. If you only want to contribute to the field of oncology by enrolling patients to clinical trials or simply practice (without any focus on academia), you probably want to go to a clinically focused institution, where you are seeing patients 80-90% of your 3 years. To get into the fellowship, regardless of the type you choose, the strength of your application is demonstrating your commitment to research. I would argue the quality of your publication matters more than quantity, although there is a threshold of quantity as well. I would do maybe 7-10 things. These could be abstracts, posters, presentation, and obviously publications. I would have at least 1 first author paper or a co-author of a high impact journal. Letters only matter if the institution know the writer, which I would argue is one of the few reason why a training in a competitive residency is important. To sum up, HO is a truly Evidence Based Medicine, more so than any other field. It's an exciting, where the practice is constantly changing because of better understanding of oncology. You are also taking care of patients at their most vulnerable state, so you owe it to them to be the best doctor you can possibly be. If you want to contribute the science, go into a research focused fellowship. If you want to help as many people as much as possible now, go to a a clinically focused fellowship. If you want to do both, you can go to either one and see less patients but spend the rest of the time on enrolling patients to clinical trials. Get a feel for what you like. And if you know you want to be in academia, start setting yourself up now by getting a good step score, to go to a good IM residency, and start research now. Nothing shows commitment more than showing half a decade of research experience. This is a lot of information, and I hope it helps. haha. PS. There is a whole field of heme I ignored.

That will be awesome.. Can't wait for it

Appreciate that

I agree. Our health care system in the US is a horrible mess. We have to import foreign doctors to meet the need here. Why is this? One reason is that medical schools limit the number of medical students so that all doctors out there won't have to worry about competition from other doctors for patients. There's a disconnect here between the medical schools and reality. They turn away talent that we all could use. Makes no sense at all and causes us all to suffer low-quality medical care. Medical personnel are always hugely rushed and even more so now that corporations own everything and press mercilessly for more and more profit at the expense of patients who can't even afford to pay for much of the poor medical care we have in the US. Total mess!

​@@virginiamoss7045 if you think healthcare in the USA is then I have bad news for you lmao

@@MostafaAhmed-bp7ce "Is" what? What is your bad news?

Thank you! ❤

LMFAO IT TOOK ME LIKE 10 SECS TO FIGURE THAT OUT!!!!

I... don't get it 😭😭😭

@@arniedyljadol2201 they never see their kids

😂😂😂😂😂

that was actually funny! I literally laughed out loud!

Its very hectic 🤧😟😟😟

It’s about how good you are at negotiating.

I’m doing gyn obs rotation and I spent 48 straight hours in the delivery room and theatre. And now I have to go back after few hours again. I hate this

​@@imsungjaesmelody.thesnorte5623 can I know then why u chose medical because I am in that road can u say ?

​@@imsungjaesmelody.thesnorte5623 damn

Protects them HOW?

Thank you! Why isn’t anybody questioning the CEOs and business people inflicting this torture on doctors and healthcare workers

I agree. I was wondering why something isn't being done to help these medical workers. Why can't Family Medicine Doctors be paid more? Why doesn't our government invest in ways to lessen student loan debt. I don't know. I just know it doesn't have to be this way.

@@angelrs_11 Agreed.

I agree with you. If everyone and also his mother want to pursue dematology for examples who the hell will cover the role of a family doctor or pediatrician or oncologist etc etc? The population needs doctors and surgeons of all types, we don't just need dermatologists🤦

I actually wanted to a neurosurgeon lol but now im rethinking it. Im not trying to bust my brain lol

@@Apostleaisha how can you want to be a neurosurgeon and not know this kmao

@@SK-mr6ov lol thats y I said I am rethinking it lol

@@SK-mr6ov what about neurologist (my current ambition), do i still get to live a convenient lifestyle? 🥺

@@luqmanhisham6093 yea you’ll have time, tbh once you’re an attending physician then you can pretty much build your own schedule and how much you want to work. It’s all up to you

Yep same, it’s nice to be recognized for all the hard work some specialists do. They deserve more credit.

Fellow South African here , goodluck Tshephang! ❤️

South African too, good luck man!

Congrats and goodluck

Pathology offer great lifestyle and money

How’d it go?

are you a resident in india or US

@@sakibkhan00 does it matter ? Lol

@@Saudigoat123 😔😔😔

Why is your life hell and do you regret going into medical school? Any advice

@@anthonym1625 as I said, I don’t get enough time for myself. And no, I don’t regret med school. I always wanted to become a surgeon, yes it’s hard but there always a pot of gold at the end. “Suffer now and Rejoice later” is my Motto.

That would be an amazingly helpful videos

PhD in what?

@@71kakarot Maybe he wants to compare medical practitioners with other scientific professionals, or with non-medical academics? All three are options for clever kids.

@@faithlesshound5621 There are MD/PhD programs and typically take 8 years to complete versus only 4 years if you were to just get an MD

@@sasquatch8268 Those combine a medical degree with advanced research in one of the basic sciences in the middle of the course. The USA does not have PhDs in clinical subjects: which is fair enough, since even a fresh MD rarely knows enough to conduct research on a clinical subject. There are other combined programmes such MD & MPH (master of public health). Also MD/JD, or did I make that up?

Same

Same :(

Just negotiate better. Make your first question in the interview whether you can be the first person to set up a shift work scheme, and who else are they also hiring to help with neurosurgery?

Yeah, I fail to see why they cannot negotiate and take less load but still work quality. Sounds fishy

How much do they make in the UK?

I may add Cries in German

A consultant specialist salary starts at £82k ($111k) and goes up to £110k ($150k). For GPs, salaries start at £58k ($79k) and go up to £88k ($121k). Ofc there is potential for private work etc in some specialties but you would need to do a lot to make as much as an American doctor

Cries in student debt

Remembering 240k Turkish liras make only 24k euro in reality. And this is much higher than average specialist doctor salary. Not talking about 36 hour shifts, hierarchy and stress. Cries in Turkish.

I own many businesses and I didn't have vacation sometimes for 7 years at times. I never complain because I loved what I've done and I didn't make nearly the kind of money these people do. I would love once to go to a doctor's office and see some people walk in that you know I messed up and walk out normal. I guess that would be quite a joke. I would love also to hear a doctor once say to their customer. You're in your mid 80s and you seem to still be getting around pretty good instead of coming here why don't you go take a nice Cruise what's something else you might like because whatever it is they have we can't fix. LMAO

The wife's many time get arrogant asnd overspent depending of their background.... They don't do rthe work....

Please explain what's the "vacation time" in internal medicine. How often do you get it?

What is the difference between family and internal medicine? Are internal medicine and family medicine threatened to be oversaturated by nurses practitor ? What are specialties that will be most threatened by it?

Is pediatrics a good speciality?

wait, you make $360 a *year* ?

@@kristinafamn lol. $360k

@@imdoc7872 oh

omg $360k, appealing enough fighting for USMLE but i know it will be really really tough.

**cries in NHS**

Neurology was a painful rotation.

Something most people never consider.

That's what medicine is about, by and large. There are lots of sick and disabled people who need help. Why limit yourself to the minority who can be cured completely and quickly? Insurers don't like the sick and disabled either, so they get a poor deal from insurance-based systems, as in the USA. I suppose before the war bright young MDs didn't want to deal with TB and syphilis either.

@@zglrd8938 neurology is the best

How often do you get late night calls from the hospital?

We weren’t even allowed to do that when I was a 3rd year. Residents caught the babies, Med students only caught the placenta….

Worked to death?

With the white coat! 🤣

Yeah. I want to be an fp. I doubt I'll get into med school, but I'm gonna try my best. Being an fp is my dream and I'd like to learn more about it. It's not talked about a lot

This is me too. I love school and don’t do well with too much down time. I’m starting my Obgyn residency soon!

He is referring to that PAs and FNPs are becoming more numerous and may be taking away patients and eventually jobs from other primary care specialty in particular. Similar creep can be seen with CRNAs and anesthesia assistants in the anesthesia field

You can also save lives of rather famous people. People like Ronald Reagan and Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords have needed neurosurgeons after assassination attempts.

It is true? Really?

@@diksha6057 yess!

Especially the ones with morbid sense of humour and still bang to death metal 😂

I would absolutely love to see this

Yes pleassse. I asked this on another video, but I think there are more popular specialties he’s trying to cover first.

Agreed

I work in a pathology lab and totally agree! Most people don't realize it exists and how cool it can be

Genuine question: if it’s such a very bad lifestyle, then why are you aspiring for it?

@@TheHpnumber1fan it may have a bad lifestyle but there many things to love like watching a heart stop for bypass and then restart after and now there better. It's amazing.

@@fd_medic1736 Would you recommend people to chose CT surgery as their speciality? Also, would being one at the age of 40+ become tiring?

@@carlcool20 depending on your personality would be a big importance of choice to go into CT surgery. And yes after 40 you could become tiring BUT THERE IS A WAY TO RESOLVE THAT. You can reduce your hours in private practice and do simple procedures that have low likelihood of complications such as bronchial termoplasy, Vats, etc

@@fd_medic1736 Ah I see, thank you so much! When you say "depending on your personality", is there a way to know if I'm fit for the job or not? Like a website or a set of personalities I should have to become a surgeon? Also, do surgeons ever get a break? Like a week off (vacation) or even a day off? Sorry for asking more questions, I'm really curious

I'm interested to know whether you are talking about BC or Alberta? This is disgraceful...and this is definitely a newsworthy story. Something needs to be done ASAP.

That reminds me of a fellow medical student who went to do a six week elective placement in rural Southern Africa. He was welcomed by the sole doctor, an expatriate, who said "Thank God you've come," got into his car with his family and went off on holiday. His friends said he was too traumatized to talk about his experience.

@@faithlesshound5621 OMG...can't even imagine how traumatizing this was for the medical student.

Why do you think he's gone off his rocker?

Sounds aweful

@@lzeng78 Its really not awful and I make good money.

I m also a FM doc and I say FM is actually a life style field. People who are miserable in FM would be miserable in any field. 20 pts a day is less than 3 pts an hour.. I laugh when I hear docs complain about 20 pts a day.

and how much is your compensation

@@creepypastabvb2401 i m productivity based

Same as you since im 14 neurology and neurosurgery

What exactly do you do?

Yes!!!

You don't XD

So true. Advertising is basically just doing the same work back and forth repeatedly while in the end the client might even choose the first design or script. And these work hours wasted!!!

There are a lot of people who do it if their parents happen to run private clinics while it might be on pressure its still something.

My friend’s dad was a lawyer and they barely saw him. She has no plans to be a lawyer either lol

It's not true atleast from what I have seen. Many 2nd gen doctors have an advantage in choosing surgery

@@stardust628 In what sense?

You are assuming the life of a Kpop idol is easy/ stress free. Most celebrities have mental health issues; some could event lead to suicide. The grass is always greener on the other side.

@@mc-eo1wh bro, nowadays there arent that many jobs that allows an early retirement with only 7 to 14 years of work. although doctors graduate with high debt, there are other professions as well. Dentists and lawyers for example have huge debt, yet they make far less than doctors... being a doctor might not be the best job, but its hell of a good job

I see where you’re coming from, but there are countless stories of K-pop idols on crazy diets, fainting, not being a able to début and so on. If they like entertainment it could be worth it though.

I agree. This path is so draining. I dedicated my youth to it and it makes me sad at times

It's like wanting to be a pop star or elite sports player. Many kids put in the 10,000 hours that allegedly lead to fame and fortune, but only a tiny minority hit the big time. The rest burn themselves out and get whatever ordinary job they can with their poor education. It makes no more sense than putting all of your money into lottery tickets.

LOOOOOOOL. You probsbly won’t even make it to Med school kid

@@TheExclusiveB13 If u love something u will pursue it. A lot of people give up because they don’t have much passion. So thanks for your concern.

That's a noble goal. Good luck to you on your journey. There will always be naysayers and people who have nothing better to do than to try to quash your dreams, but your dreams remain in your hands. As long as you handle your business, you can make it.

@@TheExclusiveB13 why bring someone down? especially when they're this young

you can do it! I always talked about going into medicine and im a fourth year student now. its a tough journey, but I still believe its worth it