How many physicians do we have here?

[heartened]

Hey,

 

Where are you in residency? When we emailed a while back, you were still in med school! Time flies! Still thinking GI, huh? I guess with an avatar like yours, there's no looking back (side)

 

Best,

[heartened]

Anesthesiologist? Of course we all know you're not a doctor!

 

Drug-pusher!!

[tth2]

Anesthesiologist? Of course we all know you're not a doctor!

 

Drug-pusher!!

I've often wondered whether being an anesthesiologist is in fact the best job in medicine? They get paid really well, all they have to do is follow a bunch of well-established tables as to how much anesthesia to administer, they don't do any real work during surgery, they get to sit down during the whole surgery, no one every blames the anesthesiologist for a botched surgery, and women in labor think they're God when they arrive to give an epidural.

[jokersrevenge]

don't forget very high pay and 5-6 weeks paid vacation. and my favorite, you don't have to deal with patients complaining and seeing them over and over.

[buttock]

Or you could just do like most and sit in the lounge watching TV while the CRNAs do all the work.

 

Or if you're an insufficiently_thoughtful_person, you go into chronic pain management

[tth2]

Or you could just do like most and sit in the lounge watching TV while the CRNAs do all the work.

 

Or if you're an insufficiently_thoughtful_person, you go into chronic pain management

I wonder if it`s too late for me to go to medical school?

[heartened]

Well, you might want to hear the other side of the story first, from those of us who, for better or worse, found our true love in fields other than anesthesiology, radiology, ophthalmology, and dermatology!

 

Best,

[tth2]

I`ve always wondered, why does any med student decide to go into proctology, and do their med school classmates give them endless s**t (pun intended)?

[buttock]

Hey now...I'm gonna be a poop doctor.

 

You just get interested in something and go from there. I never thought I'd like that.

 

Technically I'll be GI, not proctology (now known as colorectal surgery), but it's all poop medicine.

[Sharkey]

Hey Steve,

 

If you ever make it to one of the cardiology meetings, do look me up. I almost always attend to present research or chair a session.

 

CHEST is one of the premier thoracic/pulmonary journals, if not the premiere journal. Sounds like a fun job.

 

Best,

 

Will do, Hari. I'll probably get to the ACC meeting one of these years.

 

Working at CHEST is a fun job. Not as fun as HOOTERS magazine, but ok!

[heartened]

Hi Steve,

 

I'm always at ACC. I'm one of their abstract reviewers, and I usually have a few abstracts of my own that I'm presenting. Just give me the heads-up, and we'll finally meet up.

 

Best,

[heartened]

By the way, if any of you guys live in the NYC area and ever need any medical help or advice, certainly feel free.

[comicartfan]

Hari,

there is another cardiologist on the CAF. Robert Reily - he has a nice collection and even some medical comic pages. -

 

Mike

[heartened]

Thanks! I recognize the name, and will check out his gallery.

[namisgr]

I believe both namisgr and drdonaldblake are MDs, although I believe namisgr is more on the research side.

 

Nah, I've stayed out of this thread because I'm a PhD (in Neurobiology). I am, however, on the faculty of a Medical School (but in Pharmacology, a basic science department), and have to deal with department chairs, deans and vice deans who are almost invariably MDs.

[tth2]

I believe both namisgr and drdonaldblake are MDs, although I believe namisgr is more on the research side.

 

Nah, I've stayed out of this thread because I'm a PhD (in Neurobiology). I am, however, on the faculty of a Medical School (but in Pharmacology, a basic science department), and have to deal with department chairs, deans and vice deans who are almost invariably MDs.

Sorry Bob, my bad.

[TheSurgeon]

Hi. I practice General Surgery. While at the local comic book shop one day, an oncologist I work with called in to see if his comics for the week came in so I got to confront him when I saw him again.

 

As a medical school faculty, I teach 3rd year medical students as they rotate through general surgery. I give a lecture titled "The Acute Abdomen" and present cases to the students. For the first case, I go through slides from EC comics MD #1 from around 1954 on appendicitis. The whole MD series is fantastic, and the story on appendicitis is perfect for students- they love it and crack up! I present it as a case and go around the room asking the students questions about differential diagnosis, treatment, etc. Very fun! I am now collecting surgeon comics (just bought Picture Stories from Science #2) and put them up in my office.

 

Can members list books with a physician theme?

[Transplant]

Never seen that one. Nice.

 

I'm not a doc. I'm an attorney and my practice is devoted exclusively to healthcare law. Want to know about Stark III? Don't ask me, no one can decipher that mess. But I can give it a shot for the right price.

[heartened]

Nice to see this thread resurrected! DM, what's your full name, and where do you practice and teach?

 

[djpinkpanther67]

I'm not a doctor but I have been a medic (EMT) in the Army for the past 21+ years. I have a lot of experience working Combat Casualty Care, Trauma/ER, Newborn Nursery, PC, and have specialized certification in Allergy/Immunology.