any general surgeons these days can perform laparoscopic surgeries, if it is a complicated case then the patient should be in a hospital already. otherwise you can go to a teaching institution and they would have laparoscopic surgeons there, good luck
2007-05-10 02:12:06
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answered by HK3738 7
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Are you kidding me? What on earth makes some people think General Surgery has the best lifestyle out of those three? AFTER completing residency, the average general surgeon is still working around 70 hours a week. Out of those three, the general surgeon has the worst hours and is the only one who can expect to have to come in from home pretty regularly for surgical emergencies. ER docs don't work anywhere close to that many hours. They DON'T take call (they probably have a backup call system for when there is a catastrophic accident, but it is not something they routinely have to do). All of their work is by shifts. There is a downside in that the shifts rotate through different times so that sometimes you are working in the morning, sometimes the afternoon, sometimes the middle of the night. Nevertheless, ER docs have the fewest work hours of any of those three--and fewer hours than most medical specialties. An added upside of emergency medicine is that they see everything--it's more intellectually diverse. Back when I was a 4th year med student, ER was one of my favorite rotations because it allowed me to use everything I had learned in all of my other rotations. You'll be dealing with heart attacks, strokes, surgical abdomens, broken legs...of course, you'll also be dealing with dinky things like the flu and kids with ear infections... Plastic surgeons can potentially make the most money, have the most flexible schedule, and although they take call, they rarely have to come in for emergencies. Although some of their patients can be a real pain in the ***, the vast majority of plastic surgery patients are actually pretty normal people. That's a common misconception that the only people who go to plastic surgeons are demanding, vain, rich old women. On the downside, it is probably the least personally rewarding of the three specialties. Of the plastic surgeons I've known, most don't really enjoy doing cosmetic surgery--it makes them a lot of money, but it doesn't give them that warm fuzzy feeling of having made a real difference in someone else's life. For that, they relish the reconstructive cases which are much fewer and far between. I do want to add that plastics does have an element that other specialties don't and that is art. There is definitely an art to a lot of the work they do, whether it is purely cosmetic or reconstructive. In contrast, in general surgery for example there is basically a right way to do things and a wrong way to do things.
2016-04-01 00:26:16
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answered by Anonymous
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