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Is pathology a lifestyle specialty?
When compared to other physicians, a pathologist’s lifestyle is excellent. A common misconception, however, is that pathologists have a decent lifestyle because they have a less than challenging career. Clearly, a pathologist’s job is anything but boring, and it certainly can be very difficult and stressful.
Why did you choose forensic pathology?
Q: Why do you want to be a forensic pathologist? A: Forensic pathology allows you to do both physical and mental work. You also get to work with excellent people in many interesting and varied fields.
Is Pathology do friendly?
Through talking with residency program directors and residents and looking at resident rosters on program websites, osteopathic medical students can glean which pathology residencies welcome osteopathic physicians. UIC’s pathology residency program, for example, is especially DO-friendly.
Why would you see a pathologist?
Pathologists are often involved in the diagnosis of illness. A pathologist may examine a sample of tissue for a virus, bacteria, or other infectious agents. The vast majority of cancer diagnoses are made by, or in conjunction with, a pathologist. Pathologists may also help guide the course of treatment.
How do you specialize in pathology?
To be a pathologist, you must first train to become a doctor, followed by at least five years of training in an accredited pathology laboratory and the completion of a number of examinations.
Why do so many people choose pathology as their major?
Most people who choose pathology as a default because they hate everything else end up hating pathology also. Pathology is such a widely varied field that it is also hard to dissect it down to a simplistic statement like “surgeons like to cut” or “emergency physicians like chaos” or “pediatricians like kids.”
Is pathology done worth it?
3. Finally, pathology done effectively lets you directly be involved in many of the critical decisions that affect a patient’s life through continually educating those around you and at the same time being a vanguard for proper care delivery. Done well you have the privilege of being a “doctor’s doctor”.
Is the pathologist the priest of Medicine?
In medical school, the chair of pathology spoke to us the first day of second year in our first pathology didactic lecture and began his lecture with a transparency on an overhead projector (remember that?) by saying that “The hospital is the church, the pathologist is the priest”.
Which medical meetings should every pathologist attend?
Every pathologist should attend the largest medical meeting in the world, the Radiology Society of North America (average attendance 87,000 with over 50\% international attendees). The brute force Radiology has accomplished with RSNA needs to happen in Pathology. We pathologists can actually learn a lot from one another.