If you were younger would you go into urology?

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If you were younger would you go into urology?

Postby Mark1974 » Thu Feb 29, 2024 5:22 pm

I work in special education and I have a good union and health insurance and retirement plan, so I'm not changing course at the age of 49....but if I were 20 years younger and learned all the things I'm learning now I think I would enter the field of urology

I don't think I was ever smart enough to be a doctor, but maybe as a nurse practitioner of physician's assistant

Does anyone else find this stuff as fascinating as I do? What could be more fascinating to a man than this?
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Re: If you were younger would you go into urology?

Postby Old Guy » Thu Feb 29, 2024 5:35 pm

At 38 I went back to college and got my degree in Occupational Therapy. Working with some doctors was an experience I never thought I could handle. Standing side by side in the surgery suite watching a knee get replaced or a broken finger fixed was amazing to watch but could never see myself doing it.
Urology is one field that always makes me wonder what interested the doc enough to enter the field. (Proctology is another field that makes me say why?) But it is good to know that a doc has enough smarts and interest to specialize. For me though, don't see myself wanting to handle men's penises for a living.
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Re: If you were younger would you go into urology?

Postby bldoink » Thu Feb 29, 2024 6:57 pm

I have a young friend who recently graduated from Med school. He's doing his residency now. I asked about urology. I was explaining to him that there was a need of good doctors in that field. He said he had some interest but he also explained that it wasn't generally your doctors graduating top of their class that entered that field. Too bad for us.
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Re: If you were younger would you go into urology?

Postby otter17 » Thu Feb 29, 2024 8:54 pm

Urology is a pretty competitive speciality, as are most surgical subspecialties. Definitely top half of the medical school class. More competitive for example, than general surgery, internal medicine, OB-gyn or any primary care.
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Re: If you were younger would you go into urology?

Postby Gt1956 » Sat Mar 02, 2024 3:56 am

I have a friend whose brother is a dr of some sort of specialty or such. He said he would of went on to become a proctologist but was afraid of the teasing his siblings would of given him.
He said 9-5, no weekends or late night calls. What more can a dr ask for? Hard to argue with that logic.
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