Today, I went down to Radiology to get a preliminary reading of a CT on a patient. I had never been to where the radiologists work before. I've heard all sorts of jokes about how if you're afraid of the dark you should go into ophthalmology, and if you're afraid of the light you should go into radiology, but I've never seen what it's like firsthand. Now I know that I never want to go there again. The radiologists sit in the dark (and I'm not even kidding in the slightest here) in a large, labrynthine room of cubicles, each with 2 huge flat screen computer displays. They stare at the computer screens in the dark. All day. I can officially say that within the first 30 seconds, radiology was ruled out as a career for me-- if I wanted to spend the rest of my life sitting in a dark cubicle staring at a computer screen, I could have skipped the 4 wasted years of youth in med school and $150K of debt, and started off at twice the salary I'm going to make as an resident using my Bachelor's degree as a computer programmer.
Radiology? An emphatic noooooo, thank you.
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