If you had to pick only one thing about EM...

[JackBauERfan]

that you like, what would it be. I know we've had questions like this in interviews maybe, but just want to see the top reason why folks pick EM.

For me, its the variety of patients.

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[USAF MD '05]

golf

 

[DrMom]

no rounding!!!

 

[DrQuinn]

I love the interactions with the nurses and ancillary staff. I am almost 100% of the time joking around and having a great time with the nurses/staff because we all have the same cynical pseudo-erotic sense of humor (atleast where I'm doing residency). I sure am hoping its the same way up north.

Q

 

[colforbinMD]

It's gotta be the chicks

 

[JackBauERfan]

It's gotta be the chicks

cool lots of different responses, lets keep em coming!

 

[GeneralVeers]

The best part is that although I have to see in the ED Mrs. Smith who is a 40 year old white female with fibromyalgia, depression, bipolar, and methamphetamine abuse for her back pain x 4 years, I can turf her, and don't have to see her on a weekly basis like her PCP does.

 

[southerndoc]

no rounding!!!

Amen to that! Preach it sister!

 

[roja]

Diversity of acute disease

 

[krust3]

No Pager, More Cowbell!

 

[colforbinMD]

No Pager, More Cowbell!

Yes definately more cowbell!!!!! And of course the chicks

 

[colforbinMD]

Being a part of the number one specialty on SDN!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[ERMudPhud]

1. figuring out the diagnosis based on very limited information

2. emergent procedures

3. what generalveers said

(sorry thats 3 things but oh well)

 

[Coach]

cause the chicks dig it

 

[southerndoc]

cause the chicks dig it

Not as much as surgery though. Our surgery colleagues have a higher chick factor.

 

[turtle md]

Not as much as surgery though. Our surgery colleagues have a higher chick factor.

That may be true, but we have more time to f/u (if you know what I mean, wink wink, nudge nudge )

 

[Jeff698]

That may be true, but we have more time to f/u (if you know what I mean, wink wink, nudge nudge )

And someone has to take care of the surgeon's women since they're in the hospital all the time.

Take care,
Jeff

 

[colforbinMD]

Not as much as surgery though. Our surgery colleagues have a higher chick factor.

That may not be true. I can count the numbers of surgeons I have met who can talk to women on one hand. Maybe things are different where you are but where I am surgeons are at the bottom of the barrel as far as the ladies are concerned. (excluding the ortho studs of course)

 

[JackBauERfan]

1. figuring out the diagnosis based on very limited information

2. emergent procedures

3. what generalveers said

(sorry thats 3 things but oh well)

Yes, only supposed to state one

But I might have to change mine to chicks too....na, i'll stick with diversity....maybe diversity of hot chicks....

 

[la gringa]

i'll echo just about everyone above - except, being female, maybe being an ED doc is more of a negative than a positive when it comes to the guys...

oh, and you don't have to fill out those awful disability papers (those in IL know what i mean!) or deal with home health, placement, etc.