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steps to becoming a radiologist -- question about blood :)
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| I grabbed this from a search to becoming a radiologist:
College (BA or BS). Usually 4 years
Medical school (MD) 4 years
Internship (1 year)
Radiology Residency (4 years)
Fellowship (usually 1 year) but not everyone does a fellowship
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OK. So here's my question. I would like to pursue a medical career as
a doctor. But I hate the sight of blood -- starting an IV or using
needles. So a radiologist came to mind. look at images all day long
(depending on your specialty). behind the scenes kind of work. right
up my alley.
my only concern is during medical school, i bet i will have to do
blood,needles,gorey type stuff. is this true? how much of it is
there? i bet i could psych myself out if it was like a semester long
or maybe a year tops of drawing blood or using a scalpel or something
gorey like that. once i made it to the radiology residency, blood,gorey
stuff goes away, right? i can get back to focusing on studying images,
looking for cancer, masses, etc.
i think i would be a good radiologist. i take pride in what i do and i
don't think i would get lost in the whole "i'm a doctor, i save lives,
bow before me" dogma.. but what do you think.. to be a good doctor, do
you have to be able to be 100% ok with doing blood,needles,gorey type
stuff to the human body for your whole career -- or are there some
areas in the M.D. realm that can exempt you from that and still be good
at what you do (saving lives)?
kyle
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| Imabug 2006-10-02, 4:29 pm |
| Blood and guts are pretty much unavoidable in any field of medicine,
radiology included.
In med school, you'll have at least one semester of gross anatomy where
you will spend at least half a day sequestered with a body learning the
finer points of anatomy. Watch out for the spooge.
Clinical years where you see patients and go on services like surgery
and internal medicine will be filled with things like learning
venipuncture,
observing and participating in surgical procedures, etc.
Radiology residency years will see you going on rotations in
interventional
radiology where you will be threading catheters and devices into
patients'
vessels (more blood), GI/GU radiology where you will be giving people
barium solutions in both ends (more bodily fluids). There will be
image
guided biopsy procedures and other things involving puncturing people.
Radiology isn't all sitting in front of viewboxes or computer monitors
looking at images.
if blood really freaks you out that much, you should either consider
another profession or find a way to get over it.
kyle wrote:
> I grabbed this from a search to becoming a radiologist:
>
> college (BA or BS). Usually 4 years
> Medical school (MD) 4 years
> Internship (1 year)
> Radiology Residency (4 years)
> Fellowship (usually 1 year) but not everyone does a fellowship
>
>
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>
>
> OK. So here's my question. I would like to pursue a medical career as
> a doctor. But I hate the sight of blood -- starting an IV or using
> needles. So a radiologist came to mind. look at images all day long
> (depending on your specialty). behind the scenes kind of work. right
> up my alley.
>
> my only concern is during medical school, i bet i will have to do
> blood,needles,gorey type stuff. is this true? how much of it is
> there? i bet i could psych myself out if it was like a semester long
> or maybe a year tops of drawing blood or using a scalpel or something
> gorey like that. once i made it to the radiology residency, blood,gorey
> stuff goes away, right? i can get back to focusing on studying images,
> looking for cancer, masses, etc.
>
> i think i would be a good radiologist. i take pride in what i do and i
> don't think i would get lost in the whole "i'm a doctor, i save lives,
> bow before me" dogma.. but what do you think.. to be a good doctor, do
> you have to be able to be 100% ok with doing blood,needles,gorey type
> stuff to the human body for your whole career -- or are there some
> areas in the M.D. realm that can exempt you from that and still be good
> at what you do (saving lives)?
>
>
> kyle
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| Imabug 2006-10-02, 4:29 pm |
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Imabug wrote:
> In med school, you'll have at least one semester of gross anatomy where
> you will spend at least half a day sequestered with a body learning the
that should be half the day. basically you and your body become very
good friends by the end of the semester.
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| it's a hard feeling to describe: whenever i see blood, i somehow make
myself feel like it is happening to me. how are ways people try to
overcome such anxiety?
Imabug wrote:[vbcol=seagreen]
> Blood and guts are pretty much unavoidable in any field of medicine,
> radiology included.
>
> In med school, you'll have at least one semester of gross anatomy where
> you will spend at least half a day sequestered with a body learning the
> finer points of anatomy. Watch out for the spooge.
>
> Clinical years where you see patients and go on services like surgery
> and internal medicine will be filled with things like learning
> venipuncture,
> observing and participating in surgical procedures, etc.
>
> Radiology residency years will see you going on rotations in
> interventional
> radiology where you will be threading catheters and devices into
> patients'
> vessels (more blood), GI/GU radiology where you will be giving people
> barium solutions in both ends (more bodily fluids). There will be
> image
> guided biopsy procedures and other things involving puncturing people.
> Radiology isn't all sitting in front of viewboxes or computer monitors
> looking at images.
>
> if blood really freaks you out that much, you should either consider
> another profession or find a way to get over it.
>
> kyle wrote:
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| Ray Laughton 2006-10-03, 4:28 pm |
| kyle <cartesiankyle@gmail.com> wrote:
> it's a hard feeling to describe: whenever i see blood, i somehow make
> myself feel like it is happening to me. how are ways people try to
> overcome such anxiety?
Choose a 'clean' profession, like an accountant.
Only blood you'll see is when the CEO slashes his wrists after you
cooked the books for him and the IRS found out..
--
first world medicine only for countries with first world birthrates
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| Krishna 2006-10-04, 4:28 pm |
| there is an important branch of radiology which is emergency radiology. When
a patient first comes in th e.r. for a big trauma, who do you think gives
the surgeon the ok for opening or not? Who is the one that tells him about
his internal trauma like spleen fractures, liver fractures, or big cervical
traumas? Who is the one that gives the immediate indiciation for surgery in
perforation, aortic aneurysma, bowel ischemia (just to mention some big
pathologies)?? There is just one doctor who has to know all this and has to
give an answer in a few minutes:the RADIOLOGIST. If you want to be a
radiologist you will have to deal with a big heartbeating responsability...
even if you are just "looking at ct images". It's a challange, every single
day, but it feels great!
Dr. Kri, ITALY
"kyle" <cartesiankyle@gmail.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:1159809953.122810.170330@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...
>I grabbed this from a search to becoming a radiologist:
>
> college (BA or BS). Usually 4 years
> Medical school (MD) 4 years
> Internship (1 year)
> Radiology Residency (4 years)
> Fellowship (usually 1 year) but not everyone does a fellowship
>
>
> -----------------------------------------------
>
>
> OK. So here's my question. I would like to pursue a medical career as
> a doctor. But I hate the sight of blood -- starting an IV or using
> needles. So a radiologist came to mind. look at images all day long
> (depending on your specialty). behind the scenes kind of work. right
> up my alley.
>
> my only concern is during medical school, i bet i will have to do
> blood,needles,gorey type stuff. is this true? how much of it is
> there? i bet i could psych myself out if it was like a semester long
> or maybe a year tops of drawing blood or using a scalpel or something
> gorey like that. once i made it to the radiology residency, blood,gorey
> stuff goes away, right? i can get back to focusing on studying images,
> looking for cancer, masses, etc.
>
> i think i would be a good radiologist. i take pride in what i do and i
> don't think i would get lost in the whole "i'm a doctor, i save lives,
> bow before me" dogma.. but what do you think.. to be a good doctor, do
> you have to be able to be 100% ok with doing blood,needles,gorey type
> stuff to the human body for your whole career -- or are there some
> areas in the M.D. realm that can exempt you from that and still be good
> at what you do (saving lives)?
>
>
> kyle
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