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This was from ApacheIndian, dude where are you, your my hero?
"I'm a PGY-4 rads resident. I love what I do. It feels like I play video games for a living. No BS from other services -- we are the uber consultants and people come to us for help -- never the other way around. My specialty is technology based and hence contactly moving forward, not stagnant like some other fields. I never get my hands dirty, I never get bodily fluids on me, I never have patient's spit on me, I never spend inordinate amounts of time talking to patients and family who don't have the capacity to understand what I'm saying. I don't deal with GOMERS. I earn $5000 per weekend moonlighting locally -- this year as a resident my total earnings will be 150K+ -- more than many of our hospitals trauma surgery attendings. I am doing a cardiothoracic imaging fellowship and can easily make 1+ mill working 50 hours/week after that. I can work from home, in any country, on ski slopes, or on a tropical island -- if I really want I can work from a yacht out in the ocean. I can scale back my work to 20 hours/week and earn 250K/year -- and do some entrepreneurship and business on the side -- and we all know that's where the real money is anyway.
Radiology is the only true white-collar specialty in all of medicine and surgery. Radiology transcends all the other specialties. It is hands-down the best field for one to go into -- bar none.
IMHO there's two types of people out there: The type who chose to go into radiology, and the type who wish they would have.
peace out 😎 "
"I'm a PGY-4 rads resident. I love what I do. It feels like I play video games for a living. No BS from other services -- we are the uber consultants and people come to us for help -- never the other way around. My specialty is technology based and hence contactly moving forward, not stagnant like some other fields. I never get my hands dirty, I never get bodily fluids on me, I never have patient's spit on me, I never spend inordinate amounts of time talking to patients and family who don't have the capacity to understand what I'm saying. I don't deal with GOMERS. I earn $5000 per weekend moonlighting locally -- this year as a resident my total earnings will be 150K+ -- more than many of our hospitals trauma surgery attendings. I am doing a cardiothoracic imaging fellowship and can easily make 1+ mill working 50 hours/week after that. I can work from home, in any country, on ski slopes, or on a tropical island -- if I really want I can work from a yacht out in the ocean. I can scale back my work to 20 hours/week and earn 250K/year -- and do some entrepreneurship and business on the side -- and we all know that's where the real money is anyway.
Radiology is the only true white-collar specialty in all of medicine and surgery. Radiology transcends all the other specialties. It is hands-down the best field for one to go into -- bar none.
IMHO there's two types of people out there: The type who chose to go into radiology, and the type who wish they would have.
peace out 😎 "
Being an offshore grad (I thought he went to some European school), I think it was rads or bust for him. He sure made the best of his schooling and is hopefully making a boat load doing telerads. Definitely the most interesting character on SDN!