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yes count that easy money rolling on in agreed.Every med student does. That's the sexy s***. It's what TV taught us to think medicine was. Med school and residency training in most specialties prioritize the emergent and acute care clinical experiences over the far more common (and probably more impactful) non-emergent and chronic care that makes up the bulk of healthcare.
A dozen years in and I'll take a clinic full of simple 99213s all day every day.
years ago in my residency I also like inpatient better because I was "not the sole provider." I never needed to have the final say on things. I could juts show up to a rapid response order Lasix put on BiPAp send for CXR draw some labs tell primary team and then pat myself on the back . I had a set of tasks to do and then I was done with it.
however, this form of "limited responsibility" that med students and residents (to an extent) have is only available during training. hospital attendings have no such luxury of 'limited responsibilities." There is a reason why hospitalist medicine burns out after a while (unless it's one of those unicorn jobs...)
once a patient was discharged or transferred to "lower level of care" (i.e. MICu step down or transfer to the attending only service - which means wait for placement), I would pat myself on the back
so yes there is that appeal for the trainees
in outpatient clinics one can never really be "done" with a patient persay