Recent content by Melkor

Breast. Yes, didn't ever consider neuro or msk because of the anatomy. Caveat being that once you learn the anatomy, it's generally pretty quick to 'relearn' on the fly as needed but I'm a big picture guy who doesn't like to get hung up on the minutiae so those fellowships wouldn't have been...

OB US for sure is the highest if you want to get into specific exams. You're at the mercy of the tech to show you everything and then you have to actually know what everything means/see subtle US findings. 1 miss and now you've got a pt that will likely live 15-70 years with a serious and super...

Rads as a med student is a terrible way to determine if you will like it as an attending. I liked it because it was so boring and laid back as a med student but my cohorts didn't. I didn't like anatomy in med school or in rad training but love rads now. Just don't do msk or neuro fellowship and...

Yes, renegotiate asap with your hospital. Our hospital is increasing our PP gross income by approx 25% through subsidies. This is through various types of subsidies to include call pay, paying for overnight tele and even a straight $ subsidy. Rad market hasn't been this hot in awhile. There may...

Breast is awesome. You can make it super chill or be type a and stress about every little thing. It's completely up to you. Some say its boring but I'll take boring and chill over "exciting" and stressful like other subspecs. For what it's worth, I wanted to be a factory worker or UPS driver as...

Agree malpractice is random. Haven't seen many malpractice cases but the ones I have all involved some bs reason. For instance the rad saw a incidental lesion, puts the finding in the impression recommending additional work up but the ordering provider never bothered to read the report (ortho)...

I'm midwest/mtn so I malpractice isn't a big deal. Maybe it'd be a problem if I was on either coast or certain states (Illinois). Agree some breast MRIs can be a little time intensive but generally I've found it's balanced out by at least half of breast MRIs taking less than 2-5 minutes to...

Had a few pts in training who asked me to not do the ultrasound or bx. Never has happened since I started pp. Not an issue in my opinion.

I think it's less stressful than other subspecs but I don't mind spending 1-3 minutes talking to pts. Most of them are sweet old grandmas and you get to give them good news the majority of the time. Just goes back to the 90%+ of exams are normal = giving good news much more commonly than bad...

Breast for sure. 90+% of studies are normal. The other 10% are dependent on where you're practicing as to the degree of abnormal. I've seen academics make simple abnormal cases way more complicated than they need to be. Flip side is they probably don't ever miss anything. I say this because I...

Very possible. There's a wide range in salaries and even wider range in vacation but it's not terribly difficult to find a group where its 1 year to partner, partners avg 600-700k with 10-17 weeks vacation if you are flexible in location. Highest I've heard is 1.2 mill without owning...

Thanks for the suggestions everyone! Consensus seems to be anything but Nucs, Peds, Chest/Cardiac. Good to know I can't really go wrong with anything else. Haven't done mammo yet but that seems interesting. Is it right to assume there would be enough volume in the rural setting for mammo to...

So, I'm currently an r1 (soon to be r2) and I'm trying to figure out which fellowship I should do. I'm at a mid to upper tier academic place in the north east and during this first year I haven't felt a specialty that has really grabbed me. I don't necessarily hate or love anything at this...

Yes, but likely only bottom of the barrel programs in cali (which doesn't exactly mean they are bad).

On that note, although I don't think they have any DOs right now, for future applicants, I think Emory is becoming more DO friendly for those who like the South...