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I know enough doctors to find this exceptionally amusing.
It’s funny but inaccurate – the top of the class (the hardworking students) usually go into Opthalmology, Pathology or Radiology.
You are exactly correct – the hardworking STUDENTS go into those fields… so they don’t have to ever work hard again.
If you bothered to read the top of the chart, the base branch says “Medial Student”.
actually, it says “Medical Student”, not “Medial”
I think reading medial and not medical speaks for itself…!
lol
Um, I beg to differ. Those students are studying their butts off so they can go into a specialty where they won’t have to work that hard.
working your butt off for 4 years to have alternative Fridays off and have work end at 4 doesn’t really qualify yourself as hard working
indeed, ophthalmology is both a medical field, and a surgical field
making it one of the more difficult branches of medicine
I am a medical student (nearly a doctor actually), and I find it equally amusing.
I LOVE MATH!
THAT WAS RANDOM!
This is really good. I worked in a hospital for a few years and met all kinds of doctors.
lol!
this one is great
Finally, a joke everyone can relate to.
So where does Dr. House fit into this chart?
Need to add Crazy->Hardworking->Mean-> Diagnostician path
House is a pathologist amigo
Lol, no he’s not, he’s a nephrologist.
um, no, a nephrologist specializes in kidneys, House is a little more well-rounded than that…
Actually, Lynx is right. House’s specialties are infectious disease and
nephrology.
Which, by the way, is a combination virtually unheard-of in the real world.
Well it’s a good thing it’s tv then.
Great one!
Finally, a graph that is not only rather decent but actually quite good.
It’s remarkable.
There should be a separate site for good, funny charts like this one. Here it’s an island in a sea of cluelessness.
The reason it’s good is because it was stolen from the British Medical Journal (IIRC). It’s been floating around the Internet forever.
Man, I can’t wait until the arguments spark up on THIS one.
Never having been given general anesthesia I don’t really know, but don’t anesthesiologists work with patients who are awake and put them to sleep?
And pathologists primarily work with dead people? Really?
The Doesn’t Matter branch seems a bit iffy to me, but otherwise, interesting graph.
Most anesthesiologists don’t interact with awake patients for more than a handful of minutes. And pathologists deal with either dead patients, or with isolated tissues. Pathologists have more or less zero interaction with intact living patients.
Not necessarily the case, though a fair generalization.
Some pathologists do take tissue samples themselves.
And some anesthesiologists specialize in pain and see nothing but awake patients.
yay! a good graph! XD
Lol, that me. medicine.
my ADD does not allow me to read all of this graph
Same here…I keep seeing new things every time I look at it.
This has been around for at least 4 years…
Also, just to be clear… there’s no “diagnostician” field anywhere but on TV.
This chart has been around for at least 4 years.
Dr. House is OFF THE CHART, hahaha I crack myself up.
Can’t lie, I loled.
Guess it’s emergency medicine for me…OOOO SHINY!
Yeah that’s the whole reason I’m an EMT. 30 years of medical, blah. I’ll go to EMT school for 5 weeks instead!
And as long as that’s possible, EMS will never be recognized as a profession by the rest of the medical community. Not something to celebrate.
Flow charts make the world go round.
I hate to break this to everyone but that is an old graph. This is a fail because it is totally stolen from an email.
http://doctorslife.blogspot.com/2006/03/career-flowchart.html (Not my blog but it has the graph)
Lol, this graph is really funny, and spot on. My parents are both in the medical field, and from what they’ve told me about medical school, the people can get pretty weird and crazy. But there’s one category you can put them all in, Night Owl. No matter if they like light or dark, in medical school (or any other college major for that) sleep is impossible.
Where’s Cardiology in this? Oh, right, it fits under ‘hard working’, ‘hates children’, and ‘crazy’.
I feel confident in my choice of medical future now.
General medicine plz.
AWESOME!!!
i’m an EMT trainee and i AM crazy and i have NO attention span!
I’m an EMT. I have a great attention span- for things that I actually find interesting. It would be impossible for me to ever become a doctor. All of those years of monotonous schooling only to land yourself deep in debt and stress? The ridiculous probability of being sued? I’ll take EMS any day.
plus… you get to use the siren!
woo-woo-wooo!
Yay! Siren!!!
*is so in emergency med*
it’s really more that i don’t want to work with one patient for more than 20 minutes. it’s video game pace, basically.
Hey now…The list isn’t complete without drunk graduate psychiatry students….
Brilliant graph!
Can someone please buy me the giant gummy bear on a stick?
Hahaha
) Mean attitude: surgeons! True enough!
)
And for lazy med students, look there, the options are: radiology, dermathology and ophtalmology!
Dr. House is deffinetly out of this chart: he is mean, but not a surgeon, he hates both the children and the grown ups, he would rather the patient asleep and so on
I dunno, I work in an orthopedic surgeons office and all the surgeons are extremely nice. Though one or two are just a tad… puffed up. But still, very nice guys.
This is the worst graph I’ve seen in a long time…
Maybe if you think of it as more a ‘career path diagnostic tool’ over a graph you’ll feel much better about things…
And then there’s my proctologist who, despite all those prostate screening exams has not once invited me to dinner. Not once.
I’m a general internist, and I think this is hysterical (and so did my Division Chief).
A slightly expanded version of this chart hangs on the door of the student services office at my med school. I think it’s there as a joke, but sometimes I’m not so sure.
It’s funnyest when you find out it’s not a joke. ^^
I was afraid of that.
Married to an ophtho resident. We found this hilarious and so true. Except for the lazy part, that only comes in after residence and fellowship are over. Right now I see him about 2 hours (of awake time) a day; he works far too hard.
I am a medical student, just coming into the point at which I choose a specialty. I find your graph quite illuminating and will be sure to consult it as I make my final decision.
Or I could just split my sides open laughing.
It’s so funny because it’s so true!
gald you find this funny.
as pointed out, i can’t take credit for this; was emailed to me. apparently (didn’t bother to verify) this was actually published in the British Medical Journal, a real peer-reviewed medical publication. they do publish funny, fictional articles during the christmas holidays; presumably this was one of them.
obviously, generalizations only, but then again, generalizations are funny.
Soooo Radiologic Technologists that work in Trauma are not hardworking? Thanks!
Nope, not at all!
rad techs in trauma own!
we run the show, it only takes one magic word and that warning flashing light on the x-ray tube and we can send them all running scared
=)
i love this. epic win. i’m printing this out and taping it onto the door of the nurses office in school!
As a doctor, I found this very very funny. I’m a family medicine physician though, so I would have to tweak it a little – maybe “hates adults and children”?
yeah this is all well and good except i saw this exact image and still have it on my pc from about two years ago before the graph builder of this site ever existed.
You didn’t make this, certainly not on this site.
I can not express how amusing I find this graph. As a nurse, I can tell you this graph is very close to the truth. =)
What is crazy is that derm is considered one of the hardest to get into for residencies. You have to work crazy hard to get in (AOA honors, 4.0 in med school, research, maybe some conferences under your belt) but once you get in, its a super easy life style.
I want to know what exactly “medicine” encompasses…?
Seems like a lazy catch-all term for me. Maybe it means general practice?
I’m a med student hoping to specialize in obstetrics and gynecology, but according to this I should go for psychiatry…blech! I’ll take biological/anatomical sciences to mental sciences any day.
Medicine = Internal Medicine. This includes General Internal Medicine and subspecialties such as Cardiology, Pulmonology, Nephrology, etc.
perhaps you should consider psychiatry….since apparently you have no sense of humor.
HURHUR XD i’m an emt.
Here’s a funny medical specialty stereotype comic that got passed around my med school a few weeks back:
http://aggiepie.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/12medicalspecialtystereotypesfull.jpg
PLAGIARIST!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-peter-rost/want-to-become-a-doctor_b_20148.html
… You didn’t even do anything to change it, or give any credit.
dear God…how many comments can fit under one mediumly funny flow chart?
… then the algorythm of public health professionals is: sane> hardworking>not so much>afraid of the patients>public health professionals?? ohohoho
yep, this works 100% – didn’t think my attention span was that ba…. hey look there’s a dog in the park! Haha…
This graph made me realize I am interested in Pathology… or if you think I am “nice”, medicine.
One question. Where’s Veterinary medicine?