Now, bearing in mind that I LOVED my 2 weeks on Neurosurgery. It was one of my favorite rotations of the year. I loved the attendings, and liked a lot of the residents, and got to participate in and observe really interesting surgeries. If I didn't require sleep (or a life outside the hospital), I'd have totally been into this specialty.
However I do. Thus there will be no neurosurgery in my future.
But then I saw a friend of mine on facebook had just matched into Neurosurgery. He was always the sweetest, most soft spoken, nice guy.
When I read his status, announcing where he had matched, a few thoughts ran through my head:
"Are you INSANE?"
"Well, it was nice knowing you. See you in 7 years."
"But but but.... you're so NICE!"
"WHY????"
I refrained from posting these because, well it seems a little inappropos and mean to do so after he already matched. But geez! They're the ones who are Q3 THEIR ENTIRE 2ND YEAR at the residency program affiliated with my hospital.
It's just nuts, I'm telling you.
But then, my husband tells me that he was always the one who would be working in the lab for 14 hours straight day after day. He seemed to flourish on that kind of thing. So maybe this will be a good fit for him.
2 Pearls of Wisdom:
Yeah, I couldn't do it.
Where I trained it was q3 call the entire 1st year of NSurg res (2nd PGY overall).
And it was a brutal call, at a major level 1 trauma and Neurosurgical center.
Neurology call was mild in comparison.
While not legal where you are now, it was duty for 3 straight days then 2 days off at the hospital where I did my internship.
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