Healthcare Education and Q&A Thread

[firstdown]

Originally Posted by Schneed10

There's a nationwide shortage in Orthopedic Surgeons, and for good reason. It's hard as hell to be skilled enough to do it, malpractice is high, and the hours are a bitch (especially for trauma sub-specialists like your buddy). He probably gets paged in the middle of the night to put people back together.

Even non-trauma sub-specialties like Hand, Joint Replacement, Spinal Fusion, they all take incredible skill. Hard to make it as an orthopedic surgeon.

Yes he does get paged at all hours of the night and that's why we wonder why he puts himself through that when his sports medcine practice does very well. He says he just likes the challange that comes with trama cases. With the sports thing he does alot of joint replacement stuff and its kind of cool because his son is a sales rep selling replacesment joints.