Can a neurosurgeon not work insane hours?
I have read and heard that neurosurgeons work fairly long hours with inflexible schedules. Is this a true blanket statement, or is there variance based on where you work and the size of the hospital. If these things do make a difference, in what setting would a neurosurgeon have to work less compared to other settings? Thanks.
Can a neurosurgeon have a normal lifestyle ?
A surgeon's life is very tough and stressful. A neurosurgeon may be called up by the hospital to do surgery at mid-night because some patient has a sudden blood clot or something else in the brain. If you want to do medicine, you have to pay a heavy price for it. But it pays very well and it is very meaningful vocation. You can still have a family but you may not have much time for your children. You have to keep up with research and all the journals, and you have to deal with deaths because not all patients may respond well to treatment and surgery. You may like to explore psychiatry. It deals with behavioural and mental problems and it is related to the brain. But it is also a demanding vocation. God bless you. Pray to God for an answer. Be still and you can hear God speaking gently to your heart. Listen for the inner voice. To be a doctor you need to be the best academically.
How much money will a practicing neurosurgeon (brain surgeon) make in France?
May I say that Yahoo Answers under the Travel section is not the best place to find information about pay in such a highly skilled and specialised profession. Added to which, without more detailed information about your personnal circumstances, it is a shot in the dark, which might explain the variety of answers you have been given to date. Uninformed people will make a stab at answering and will confuse the issues, just for the sake of being helpful, rather than say they do not really know. There is a serious differential between the salary earned by highly qualified people in Europe and the USA, and I am afraid you would earn significantly less, though "raising cattle" is not in the frame. Surgeons in France command a higher pay compared to ordinary GPs but are nowhere as highly paid as in the USA. However, though it may seem a pittance in comparison with that country, French surgeons are comfortably well off as against most other professions too and have a high standard of living. They also command considerable reverence and a high social status within the community. If you are just qualifying, there is the matter of qualification equivalence, criteria, and speciality to be put into the equation, depending on whether applicants have specialised in general surgery, vascular, visceral, dental, aesthetic, neurology (your own speciality), your age, and how much you have practised. Straight out of medical school you have not established a track record for yourself so the pay is not in millions of Euros. The people who can best answer your queries belong to the Association Francaise de Chirurgie. http://www.chirurgie-viscerale.org/socie... Since you are fluent in French, contact them and ask not just about potential income, but equivalence of degrees, recruitment, openings, and strategies to follow. As neurologist you would have few problems to find a position as there are few of them, and therefore would also have few difficulties regarding residency, visas etc... Bonne chance! Edit: Here you have it from the horse's mouth (professional orientation website) . A newly qualified neurosurgeon would expect to earn 3.000 Euros per month- before tax and social charges- so, take or leave a few dollars, $50.000 gross per year. http://www.imaginetonfutur.com/Neurochir...
How do doctors feel when they first get out of residency and make the big bucks? Is the sacrifice out of proportion with the debt they now have?
Firstly, nowadays they don’t make the big bucks. But at one time they did.Doctors are in general the worst people financially; they make more money than God and end up oftentimes with little to show for it. They are the masters of delayed gratification; I remember a chance meeting with an old friend when I was in 3d year: he had a family, a construction business, new autos, the works. I was “still in school,” driving a beat-up Datsun with Bondo falling out of the holes in the side. Made me really wonder if it was worth it.When I finished residency, my wife and I sat down and discussed this very question. I watched my colleagues buy everything they could buy and everything they could get on credit. We decided that not only would that path take our minds off the most important things - each other - but it was inappropriate and unseemly. We decided that my mother’s admonition was operative: It’s a lot easier to adjust your wants than it is your means.So we lived beneath our means. When my partners bought Mercedes, they laughed at me and my VW Dasher. I often rode my bicycle to work. I eventually began to grate on their nerves, though, and they would make snarky remarks to each other and to other doctors behind my back. I just laughed at them, which made it worse, and I kept putting all extra money in stock index funds and college funds for my -then infant - sons.So now I am retired and work when I feel like it, just to keep my head in the game. My colleagues are still working their tails off for less and less money. I fly an airplane I built and take online courses for fun. So, to answer the question: yes, if you play it smart, it’s worth it.
My boyfriend is a surgeon in training. He's always at the hospital and I don't feel he pays enough attention to my needs. He seems distant. Should I break up with him?
Your significant other is training to be a medical doctor. I can understand how you feel, my wife is doing the same thing. I've been through the highs and lows. I know what it's like to feel neglected, ignored, and alone. It sucks.But here's the situation, Your boyfriend is going through rigorous training. Not just any training, really hard training. Like incredibly fucking hard. How hard?It's extremely selectiveMedical school has one of the lowest acceptance rate of any "professional" school. Only 19,000 people graduate from medical school each year. Over 500,000 applications are sent out in the same time. On top of that, surgical residencies have one of the lowest acceptance rates of medical residencies. Less than 10% of med students get the chance to go into surgery and fewer still get in. Surgery is one of the toughest jobs to get in to.It's a very, very long roadFour years of undergrad. Potentially two years of postbac. Four years of medical school. Five years of residency. That's up to 15 years of school before you get to really be a doctor.The hours are crazyHere's a real schedule from a real surgical resident:Mon-Tues: 30 hours (call) Wed: 13 hoursTh: 13 hoursFri: 13 hoursSat-Sun: 30 hours (call)That's 100 hours of work a week. There are only 168 hours in a week! That barely leaves enough room to sleep, let alone maintain a budding relationship.The training is toughYou are learning to use your hands and some tools to cut people open, fix their insides, and put them back together. Think about that for a moment. Really ponder it. Surgeons are learning to heal by slicing open living human bodies and putting the pieces back together. It's truly incredible if you think about it. It's also extremely difficult. Surgeons are expected to learn 9,000 years of history, knowledge, technique, and tactics in a 5 year crunch. Here's the bottom line:Your boyfriend isn't ignoring you because he wants to. He literally doesn't have time for you. There's nothing you can do about that. You have to accept that he's the busiest person you know. Either you care enough about this person to stick it through the next five years, or you don't. Figure that out and make your decision. If you don't have strong feelings and have a need for a lot of personal attention, then it's time to break up.
Do doctors have time to travel and enjoy their salary?
Answer will vary based on few factors, likeEmployed doctors get 1 month vacation yearly in general. And most of them do enjoy it in their own ways. Some of them become greedy and end up moonlighting for extra income during their vacation time. It’s their personal choice. Some of these doctors work 1 wk on and 1 wk off. But many of them end up spending the off wk staying home. Traveling probably was not their passion.Solo doctors (or a small group of friendly doctors working together as equals) can take as much time off as desired every year. All they have to do is find coverage from their friends while they vacation. Doctors in this setting make money only on the days they work. So, if they made 10k/month and chose to work only 10 months a yr, then they’ll only make 100k/yr in the end. Many of these doctors become greedy and travel as little as 2 wks/yr to maximize their income. This again is their personal choice. I’m from this group. And I have been traveling 80 to 95 days per yr on average. I have always wanted to travel a lot for as long as I can remember. I’ll not have as much in savings as the greedy ones, but probably die happier in the end. For I indulge in my choices and not follow the norms. I do it when I’m younger. And I’ll continue it when I’m older and retired too.
What is it like being a surgeon?
I'm 15 years old at the moment and I want to become a Obstetrician surgeon when I get older. What are the classes that I have to take after I graduate high school? Is it all hard work? How long does it take in general? Will I ever have the chance to get married? Have kids? Spend time with my family? Travel? How much will I earn? Personally, what I want to know is how does it feel to be one, do you feel respect, good about yourself, accomplished?
Why do people look down on teen pregnancy so much ?
I know that I will be a teen father but what is wrong with becoming a parent so young my girlfriend and I both have jobs and I graduate before the baby will be born so whats wrong with this. also why do people automatically jump to abortion or adoption if you are old enough to have sex you are old enough to take care of a baby.