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This is very inspirational. I'm applying to emergency medicine residency this year and love to see stories about how much people enjoy it. I'm curious what skil

This is very inspirational. I'm applying to emergency medicine residency this year and love to see stories about how much people enjoy it. I'm curious what skills cross over from CEO to EM physician. Leadership and teamwork for sure.

lpah4all 6y ago
Well, RS certainly prepared him for how to deal with the patient dying. I'm sure he tried to save my beloved RS, too. I remember reading a Rolling Stone article years ago about neurosurgery residents (7 years) where one of the guys lost something like his first 17 patients on the table (because they're all cases like anyeurisms). He stuck with it and, one night, placed the clamp in a pool of blood to within a mm of perfection to close the bleed. Their training was: learn a procedure, do a procedure. I am grateful that people like yourselves undergo the arduous process to become an MD. Good luck and thanks!
tuberelay 6y ago
Anaesthesiologist here. I did EM for 6 months and hated it. This is because it just doesn't suit my personality. To be good at EM you need to be: - Comfortable with being a kinda bad at everything and great at nothing - Comfortable with large amounts of uncertainty and risk and having to make decisions anyway - Being abused by drunk/mentally ill patients constantly - Being patronized by medical colleagues in other specialties
- louwrentius 6y ago
  > Being patronised by medical colleagues in other specialties Of which your post here is a prime example!
  - husarcik 6y ago
    :thumbsup:
- husarcik 6y ago
  Thanks for sharing your experience! As a medical student, it is pretty difficult to get a decent feel for each specialty (as you know). I'm glad you were able to switch into something that fit you better. Have you ever considered anesthesia critical care? It seemed interesting from the little time I experienced it.
- robbiep 6y ago
  I hated EM as a student and for my first couple of rotations. I was streaming for surgery and couldn’t understand why Thr emergency department kept making such stupid admissions for us. By the time I’d seen a couple thousand patients in the ED, I was much more comfortable and now intend to complete training there (also, I can do it part time given my other commitments). I’d prefer to be ok at most things (ie retain my general medical knowledge) and good at critical care but that’s more because I work so infrequently now, and have found that I value being a generalist... abuse of ED docs decisions be damned!
itronitron 6y ago
David Lee Roth becoming an EMT might be of interest to you >> https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffabernathy/2019/03/07/cross-training-for-the-brain-david-lee-roths-second-act/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffabernathy/2019/03/07/cross-...
- husarcik 6y ago
  Awesome! Thank you for sharing!

lpah4all 6y ago

Well, RS certainly prepared him for how to deal with the patient dying. I'm sure he tried to save my beloved RS, too. I remember reading a Rolling Stone article years ago about neurosurgery residents (7 years) where one of the guys lost something like his first 17 patients on the table (because they're all cases like anyeurisms). He stuck with it and, one night, placed the clamp in a pool of blood to within a mm of perfection to close the bleed. Their training was: learn a procedure, do a procedure. I am grateful that people like yourselves undergo the arduous process to become an MD. Good luck and thanks!

tuberelay 6y ago

Anaesthesiologist here. I did EM for 6 months and hated it. This is because it just doesn't suit my personality. To be good at EM you need to be: - Comfortable with being a kinda bad at everything and great at nothing - Comfortable with large amounts of uncertainty and risk and having to make decisions anyway - Being abused by drunk/mentally ill patients constantly - Being patronized by medical colleagues in other specialties

louwrentius 6y ago
> Being patronised by medical colleagues in other specialties Of which your post here is a prime example!
- husarcik 6y ago
  :thumbsup:
husarcik 6y ago
Thanks for sharing your experience! As a medical student, it is pretty difficult to get a decent feel for each specialty (as you know). I'm glad you were able to switch into something that fit you better. Have you ever considered anesthesia critical care? It seemed interesting from the little time I experienced it.
robbiep 6y ago
I hated EM as a student and for my first couple of rotations. I was streaming for surgery and couldn’t understand why Thr emergency department kept making such stupid admissions for us. By the time I’d seen a couple thousand patients in the ED, I was much more comfortable and now intend to complete training there (also, I can do it part time given my other commitments). I’d prefer to be ok at most things (ie retain my general medical knowledge) and good at critical care but that’s more because I work so infrequently now, and have found that I value being a generalist... abuse of ED docs decisions be damned!

itronitron 6y ago

David Lee Roth becoming an EMT might be of interest to you >> https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffabernathy/2019/03/07/cross-training-for-the-brain-david-lee-roths-second-act/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffabernathy/2019/03/07/cross-...

husarcik 6y ago
Awesome! Thank you for sharing!