Sometimes, though, you'll want to kill yourself. At the time of the Major Trauma Outcome Study (1982–1987), patients with an injury severity score higher than 15 had a 24% chance of dying in the USA. So surgeons of reddit, do you really work 80+ hours per week? TL;DR: yes, most places the hours stink, but the job is fun, [–]acetylacetate 64 points65 points66 points 7 years ago (0 children), [–]SimpleSurgeon 7 points8 points9 points 7 years ago (0 children). But I am absolutely fascinated by surgery and I would hate to give up on my dream just because I was uninformed and afraid of what my future lifestyle might be like. You may not solicit medical advice or share personal health anecdotes about yourself, family, acquaintances, or celebrities, seek comments on care provided by other clinicians, discuss billing disputes, or otherwise seek a professional opinion from members of the subreddit. General queries about medical conditions, prognosis, drugs, or other medical topics from the lay public are not allowed. I also get the idea that a lot of your work will be SICU coverage and life management of really troubled patients. All posts require user flair. Our hardest rotation was the trauma surgery rotation, and it was NOT from the hours or the surgeries. English is not my first language.. [–]clumpymilk 12 points13 points14 points 7 years ago (1 child). The chief reason for this is that 90%+ of what you do covering trauma is soul-crushingly tedious. Most trauma programs end up being sort of like surgical hospitalists. Advertising or spam may result in a permanent ban. Before he returned to active duty last year, Army Reserve Maj. Donald W. Robinson was a civilian trauma surgeon at Cooper Hospital in Camden, N.J., a city known as the “murder capital” of America. It means you take care of patients that other people operate on. Well put and with better detail than what I put. 9. In terms of fellowship as well as getting a job in one of those big trauma centers. New bill proposed in Alabama to let non-surgeons do delicate laser eye surgery on your loved ones! No requests for professional advice or general medical information: This is not a question-and-answer forum such as /r/askreddit. Please submit direct links to PDFs as text/self posts with the link in the text. Because the purpose of the STOP THE BLEED ® campaign is to make our nation more resilient by better preparing the public to save lives if people nearby are severely bleeding. We'd have a few surgeons around the place who have that trauma training, but they almost certainly got it in the US or armed forces, and there's probably not enough casemix for them to do it exclusively. Polytrauma care and mortality has improved tremendously during the last 30 years. Rendered by PID 5420 on r2-app-06415099548d7934b at 2021-02-24 09:17:07.619849+00:00 running b1d2781 country code: LT. HIPAA Privacy Rule's De-Identification Standard. [–]shaheinRadiology | PGY-5 - USA 20 points21 points22 points 7 years ago (6 children). Trauma could mean such a wide variety of things and involve so many different structures. There is one, only ONE trauma center in the country of 50 million (size of maryland) and even that place bleeds money very heavily. Since P.A.s hold their own license, they are not covered under the physician’s license, this allows some flexibility with employment options. Comments which deviate from the topic of a thread to interject an unrelated personal opinion (e.g. They only keep operating it because the director is something of a national hero. Please join us to ask your questions! Other factor affecting lifestyle as a CRS surgeon is whether or not you're taking general surgery call. This is a highly moderated subreddit. The opportunities to spread the discipline in countries with maturing medical systems is enormous and would be a wonderful opportunity for someone who wants a less litigious environment than the US and enjoys working abroad. Rare disease experts and directors with the NIH are doing an AMA on AskScience today. If you do only trauma you will hardly ever operate. There obviously are those who stick with trauma over the long haul, but they are a relatively small minority. Australia's also pretty small (20million) so there's only a few population centres and therefore hospitals large enough to support a small specialty like that. Dr Annie Onishi, an LA based, trauma surgeon documents 12 days of summer coronavirus surge. Though things very from place to place in degree, in many cases you're on when you're on, and off when you're off. Recently I have been seriously considering become a surgeon ( I otherwise want to definitely be an anesthesiologist/pain management doctor) but I am worried that my public high school education has not been getting me far enough to advance into the world of surgery. Trauma surgeons by and large have pretty manageable lifestyles. Although I know him to be the wonderful husband and father that he is, that he has so many accomplishments both from the football field and now in law school, I also know he is "just" a … It would seem that that's uncommon for surgical specialties, and would add to the appeal. If I do become a surgeon I want to be a trauma surgeon, which seems very exciting. Are you under constant stress? For example in a car crash: Orthopaedics would handle fractures, a general surgeon would handle bowel spleen or other organ damage. While more than 1 million people have now been trained to STOP THE BLEED ®, that’s just a start.Our goal is to train 200 million. Trauma surgeon here, out from fellowship about 12 years. Market research is not allowed. However it's important to keep in mind trauma surgeons typically do lots of gen surg too. I love my job BTW, but it's not for everyone. For example what I've been told is that the trauma service at my school basically just manages patient transfers to other surgeons... is this applicable elsewhere? It's for people who went into surgery for one reason or another but ended up not being very good technically and don't want to operate a lot but still want to be a surgeon. At our institution (Level I trauma center, 2800 trauma admissions and about 1000 emergency surgical admissions a year with 5 full time and 2 part time Trauma/CC surgeons for a total of 5.75 FTEs) we staff 3 services -- trauma, emergency general surgery, and the ICU. [–]clumpymilk 5 points6 points7 points 7 years ago (0 children). REDDIT and the ALIEN Logo are registered trademarks of reddit inc. π Rendered by PID 5420 on r2-app-06415099548d7934b at 2021-02-24 09:17:07.619849+00:00 running b1d2781 country code: LT. Get an ad-free experience with special benefits, and directly support Reddit. I am attracted to the idea of trauma surgery, but I can't exactly reconcile my interest with the horrible lifestyle that I keep hear about. If it does, please message the moderators with a permalink to your post and explanation. Watch the surgical critical care doctor document the stress of managing pandemics while navigating the healthcare system. We do the surgical critical care, babysit the single system trauma patients for the ortho and neuro guys, and we are the ones who get all the really disaster cases. If your post doesn't show up shortly after posting, make sure that it meets our posting criteria.

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