Crisis

So if you haven't talked to me in the past couple of weeks, I'm kind of having a crisis. For the last 4 or so years I've been sure I wanted to do ER, but then when I did it, I thought it was pretty boring. When I was a tech, you were constantly running around doing stuff, which was 95% of the reason I liked it. But as a med student, it's totally different. Most of your time is spent waiting around for stuff....waiting for the nurse to get labs/UA, waiting for your patient to go get their x-rays/CT/US, waiting for the official radiology report when you can see for yourself that there's no fracture, etc...So it's actually mostly standing around, and it's quite a different experience, which I wasn't exactly expecting, and now that's thrown me for a loop....

So what to do? The different fields are all so different, all with different personalities, different levels of patient exposure, different levels of lawsuits, etc. I think two can be summarized in an exchange from (what else) Scrubs. On their first day, JD (medicine intern) and Turk (surgery intern, but you can more or less include ER and other less-cerebral specialties here as well) are discussing what their respective interns are doing as soon as orientation is over:

Turk: "Hey the surgery interns are going out for a beer afterwards-want to go?"

JD: "The medicine interns are having a Pac-Man tournament...."

So any prayers over the next couple weeks would be appreciated. I should already have my applications in by now, but I haven't even started my Personal Statments yet, as I can't really write them until I know what I want to do. The things I'm thinking of right now are: Radiology (great lifestyle, but you get sued a LOT), Internal Medicine (see above exchange, and know that it's called Eternal Medicine for a reason), and Dermatology (great lifestyle, maybe a little more competitive than I'm qualified for...)