What Kind of Specialist Should You be?? A Quick, Easy, and Reliable Guide!
*Disclaimer: Not a real guide. Would recommend further investigation into each specialty before selling your soul to said specialty based on tongue-in-cheek guide alone.
-> Are you secretly a vampire and require to work in complete darkness? Do you like to conjure up structures that simply don’t exist? Then Radiology is for you!
-> Are you an adrenaline junkie that loves high pressure situations, rollercoasters, jumping out of an airplane, and barely alive patients? Do you get excited at the prospect of explosive diarrhea, cluster seizures, spleen ruptures, and chocolate toxicity? Then you should go into Emergency and Critical Care.
-> Do you yearn to work on nothing but dead patients for the rest of your life? Do you go the entire day longing for zero human interaction? Then you should be an Anatomical Pathologist.
-> Do you wish you could walk into every room and smell yeast? Do you relish in running your hands over oozing skin? Do you enjoy talking about allergies every 10 minutes? Dermatology is waiting for you!
-> Do you have aspirations of examining semen all day every day? Are you known as the person who makes all the inappropriate jokes? Theriogenology (Reproduction) is here for you!
-> Do you show up to parties or the grocery store with your stethoscope around your neck? Do you idealize bossing insubordinates around and perceive yourself as far superior than everyone else? Do you want to be able to boast that you can do neurosurgery, fracture repair, and a lung lobectomy all at once? Surgery is calling to you!
-> Do you prefer that all of your patients be asleep? Do you jump for joy when there is discussion about blood gasses and capnographs? Does the minute detail of pharmacologic anesthetics make you jump for joy? Say no more, Anesthesiology is here!
-> Is your picture of a perfect night being called in at 3am for a colic surgery? Do you wish there was a language that only horse people (should!) know? Do you wear nothing but khakis and polos? Equine Surgery is a perfect fit!
-> Do you frequently dream about sitting at a desk looking at 600 slides a day? Did you ask for a microscope for Christmas? Do you have in-depths conversations at a party about the species differences on blood smears? Then Clinical Pathology it is!
-> Do you aspire to know more than anyone around you? Do you want cases that no one has figured out for 15 years? Do you think to yourself that your uncontrolled diabetic ketoacidic patient that has Cushings, a raging UTI, pancreatitis, pneumonia, heart failure, hepatic fibrosis, and lymphoma is not complicated enough? Then Internal Medicine is right for you!