Comments on: Medical Specialties

By: clara_torres

clara_torres — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:07:25 +0000

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
=)

By: eyedoc

eyedoc — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:51:50 +0000

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

By: Philip

Philip — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:35:37 +0000

I am a medical student (nearly a doctor actually), and I find it equally amusing.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:01:03 +0000

indeed, ophthalmology is both a medical field, and a surgical field
making it one of the more difficult branches of medicine

By: Ellen

Ellen — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:49:41 +0000

This graph made me realize I am interested in Pathology… or if you think I am “nice”, medicine.

One question. Where’s Veterinary medicine?

By: Persi

Persi — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:21:50 +0000

lol

By: simo

simo — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 04:02:53 +0000

I think reading medial and not medical speaks for itself…!

By: simo

simo — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 04:01:46 +0000

yep, this works 100% – didn’t think my attention span was that ba…. hey look there’s a dog in the park! Haha…

By: Pman

Pman — Sat, 23 May 2009 12:32:30 +0000

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.

By: Jimbo is bored

Jimbo is bored — Sat, 09 May 2009 18:32:42 +0000

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!

By: Rodrigo

Rodrigo — Sun, 03 May 2009 17:12:12 +0000

… then the algorythm of public health professionals is: sane> hardworking>not so much>afraid of the patients>public health professionals?? ohohoho

By: GretchenMD

GretchenMD — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 02:11:42 +0000

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.

By: jimbo

jimbo — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:27:49 +0000

dear God…how many comments can fit under one mediumly funny flow chart?

By: joeschmoe

joeschmoe — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 02:48:33 +0000

THAT WAS RANDOM!

By: jdog

jdog — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 04:26:56 +0000

perhaps you should consider psychiatry….since apparently you have no sense of humor.

By: Pencil

Pencil — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 04:25:20 +0000

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.

By: ENT-Bone

ENT-Bone — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 01:16:33 +0000

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

By: Xenobiologista

Xenobiologista — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:54:05 +0000

The reason it’s good is because it was stolen from the British Medical Journal (IIRC). It’s been floating around the Internet forever.

By: FlonkertonChamp

FlonkertonChamp — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 08:01:56 +0000

actually, it says “Medical Student”, not “Medial”

By: Citarra

Citarra — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 04:39:26 +0000

Medicine = Internal Medicine. This includes General Internal Medicine and subspecialties such as Cardiology, Pulmonology, Nephrology, etc.

By: KScorp

KScorp — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 02:10:34 +0000

If you bothered to read the top of the chart, the base branch says “Medial Student”.

By: kalynriot

kalynriot — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:02:31 +0000

HURHUR XD i’m an emt.

By: Jess

Jess — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 18:10:50 +0000

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.

By: Steph

Steph — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 04:35:26 +0000

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.

By: Krystal

Krystal — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 02:47:16 +0000

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. =)

By: ian

ian — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 22:00:43 +0000

You are exactly correct – the hardworking STUDENTS go into those fields… so they don’t have to ever work hard again.

By: don

don — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 21:29:53 +0000

It’s funny but inaccurate – the top of the class (the hardworking students) usually go into Opthalmology, Pathology or Radiology.

By: kelly

kelly — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 20:56:04 +0000

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.

By: in_a_box

in_a_box — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:15:29 +0000

Nope, not at all!

By: eowyn_2

eowyn_2 — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 13:27:51 +0000

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”?

By: hywel

hywel — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:11:43 +0000

i love this. epic win. i’m printing this out and taping it onto the door of the nurses office in school!

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 09:41:02 +0000

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.

By: Lynx

Lynx — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 03:39:30 +0000

Well it’s a good thing it’s tv then.

By: Mary

Mary — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 02:15:55 +0000

Soooo Radiologic Technologists that work in Trauma are not hardworking? Thanks!

By: herrsexyhosen

herrsexyhosen — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 02:00:59 +0000

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.

By: Vagus

Vagus — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 01:35:27 +0000

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.

By: Error404

Error404 — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 00:50:49 +0000

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.

By: Pickle

Pickle — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 23:45:54 +0000

I was afraid of that.

By: Casa

Casa — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:42:24 +0000

It’s funnyest when you find out it’s not a joke. ^^

By: Casa

Casa — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:40:32 +0000

Yay! Siren!!!
*is so in emergency med*

By: Citarra

Citarra — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:49:26 +0000

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!

By: Allie

Allie — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:42:11 +0000

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.

By: faetal

faetal — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:11:02 +0000

plus… you get to use the siren!
woo-woo-wooo!

By: Pickle

Pickle — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:07:59 +0000

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.

By: Rontu

Rontu — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:48:47 +0000

Finally, a joke everyone can relate to.

By: Randy

Randy — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:15:05 +0000

I’m a general internist, and I think this is hysterical (and so did my Division Chief).

By: Randy

Randy — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:13:21 +0000

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.

By: Randy

Randy — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:11:31 +0000

Which, by the way, is a combination virtually unheard-of in the real world.

By: Embers

Embers — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:48:34 +0000

Actually, Lynx is right. House’s specialties are infectious disease and
nephrology.

By: ppg

ppg — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:12:06 +0000

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.