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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A good friend was like this and spent a year working as a camp counselor at a sleepaway camp and then ski patrol in Colorado. He just really wasn’t sure what to do. Ended up doing a post bac yo get pre med classes and went to med school 2 years after graduation. He now does emergency medicine out west and skis when he’s not working. Seems like a nice life. [/quote]

Being an ER doctor absolutely sucks. I wouod.never, ever want to do it. Hospitals are chronically under staffed so you have to lie or call in sick to get vacation as a doctor. [/quote]

Doesn’t sound like you are in any danger of being able to do it. Emergency Medicine does not suck because people choose it because they like it. They can choose from any specialty in medical school and the choose that. People who choose it like the adrenaline, they like doing the high stakes life saving part; they like the pace and the variety, and in most cases they like the lack of committment—no continuity, no follow up, shift work, no call, no phonecalls, no pager after hours. They work 12, 12 hour shifts a month and make $280-300K. Most of them value something else outside of Medicine—skiing, their family, writing a novel, travel, whatever.[/quote]

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