Helping people is great, but let’s be honest, those $300,000 in loans you owe won’t pay themselves. If you’re a med student who is “all about the Benjamins,” here’s where you can find them. 1. Orthopedic Surgery $464,500 People are constantly breaking bones and will pay a pretty penny to have them fixed up. Therefore, orthopedic surgery takes the top spot as the highest … [Read more...] about 10 Highest Paid Medical Specialties
A Baby Born 9 Weeks After His Mom Declared “Clinically Dead”
The Right To Life: Baby Born To Clinically Dead Mother, But Will The Same Ring True In Controversial Irish Case? If the right to end an unborn child’s life is a mother’s choice, what happens when she is no longer able to make this decision? Thus was the case for a 23-week pregnant woman whose life was abruptly ended by a brain hemorrhage in October. At the request of her … [Read more...] about A Baby Born 9 Weeks After His Mom Declared “Clinically Dead”
Large Study Explores How Often Patients Wake Up During Surgery
"Accidental awareness" is the terrifying phenomenon when patients can actually hear and feel surgeons cutting into them with no way to communicate that they are conscious. Needless to say, the experience can be extremely terrifying and even cause post-traumatic stress disorder. The largest study to date investigating the prevalence of this phenomenon has found that it is … [Read more...] about Large Study Explores How Often Patients Wake Up During Surgery
What are the advantages of being married to a physician?
University of Michigan Medical School study shows strategies for success amid career demands ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Physicians tend to marry later and their marriages last longer even as they face the challenges, like others with demanding professions, of giving time and attention to their partners and families. The University of Michigan Medical School interviewed physicians … [Read more...] about What are the advantages of being married to a physician?
Anesthesiologists Know Who the Best Surgeons Are
You are a patient. Is your surgeon a wonderful doctor, superb under pressure, or is he or she a self-absorbed nervous individual who can’t operate their way out of a paper bag? You don’t know. Your anesthesiologist does. Anesthesiologists watch surgeons for a living. Yes, we happen to give anesthetics to patients at the same time, but we anesthesiologists are … [Read more...] about Anesthesiologists Know Who the Best Surgeons Are