Many of us have heard of the acronym, ROAD. The saying goes that anyone fortunate enough to have landed a residency in one of these specialties is well on their way to the "road" to happiness. Though each of these fields have their own particular issues, they are known for affording better lifestyles with lower hours and better pay. For those of you not in the know, ROAD stands for:
R- Radiology
O- Opthalmology
A- Anesthesiology
D- Dermatology
May I now introduce to you, MOPING. Those who choose one of these specialties risk finding themselves indeed "moping" in the future. Don't say now that you haven't been warned!
M- Medicine (Family) (need to know a lot about everything and get paid crap; "noctors" intruding on the field)
O- Ob/Gyn (wildly erratic hours, malpractice rates that would leave you breathless)
P- Pediatrics (lowest paid specialty; crazy parents)
I- Internal Medicine (sucks so bad no explanation needed, only hope out is doing a second residency....I mean fellowship)
N- Neurosurgery (brutal 7 year residency with brutal hours; essentially sacrificing your life for a higher calling)
G- General Surgery (demanding 5 year long residency, some very malignant personalities to deal with, your mechanic gets paid more to fix your car than the surgeon who removes your appendix)
btw, I like expcm adding pathology for "mopping" because many path grads will be doing that post residency.
ReplyDeletebrilliant.
ReplyDeleteexpcm's personal touch gave me a good hard laugh, i guess path grads will be moping WHILE mopping!
ReplyDeleteYou're a wholly hypocritical moron. On one hand your blog is all about how money doesn't lead to happiness and chasing money is foolish and allowing money to rule your life is the road to misery - on the other hand you are FIXATED to the point of obsession on what each specialty is making and whether it's too low. Why so obsessed with low-paying specialties? Why is that such a negative? I thought you were trying to mature beyond self-worth measured by the breadth of your bank account. Clearly you have not.
ReplyDeleteAnd, for your information, job satisfaction studies have CONSISTENTLY shown that pediatricians LOVE their jobs "despite" the "low" pay.
http://www.smbs.buffalo.edu/RESIDENT/CareerCounseling/pdf/Pediatrics.pdf
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/108/3/e40
http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/22241
http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/162/14/1577
In other words, get over yourself. It doesn't sound like pediatricians are moping. It sounds like YOU are. Have you become the malignant personality you have always complained about?
What about psychiatry?
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