Why choose internal medicine? This anesthesiologist wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole.
Internal Medicine. Are you kidding me? Couldn't stand the constant rounds every morning during med school. The endless mental masturbation on the eighteenth differential diagnosis of hemoptysis and fever just bored me out of my mind. What's worse, once you're in private practice, you are perceived as a mental midget by the subspecialists, someone who couldn't cut it in a subspecialty field. You are left with the hypertensive, diabetic, COPD, poorly compliant patients that nobody else wants to handle. Definitely out.
I chose internal medicine because nothing else was hard enough. What kind of doctor should I be? The test said I should have been an occupational medicine doctor. Internal medicine was 35th on the list, right in front of dead last #36, family practice. At least the test got something right.
Why did you choose the medical specialty you're in?
