[MossadConspiracy]

Originally Posted by Jaysh

In Forensic psychiatry, you get cold hard cash. Basically, you are hired by lawyers to evaluate their client and crap like that. So the client pays you directly.



How could there be any malpractice in forensic psychiatry?

But maybe you are right. There might be some catch. But for now, I feel happy thinking I've found the Promised Land that nobody knows about. Let me live in this delusion.

salam

bro from this description it sounds like a good deal but one catch becomes evident. if you're gonna depend on lawyers for your referrals instead of primary care docs or whatever, and the lawyers send people to you for evaluations that will make their way into their cases, then it seems like you're going to be pressured to document for the lawyers whatever it is they want. Lawyers are gonna be more incline to refer to the guy who does what they want, right

ws

[Jaysh]

Originally Posted by MossadConspiracy

salam

bro from this description it sounds like a good deal but one catch becomes evident. if you're gonna depend on lawyers for your referrals instead of primary care docs or whatever, and the lawyers send people to you for evaluations that will make their way into their cases, then it seems like you're going to be pressured to document for the lawyers whatever it is they want. Lawyers are gonna be more incline to refer to the guy who does what they want, right

ws

Well, they have a bunch of rules in place to prevent this sort of thing from happening.

[Jaysh]

Originally Posted by Bruinrab

No worries. And lucky me, I'm 5'2" (hey, I better have something going for me in this tough rishta market ). Unfortunately, it's less helpful in the OR, where most of the time I'm lucky to come up to the attending's elbow.

General Surgery. Why did you have to pick such a girly specialty?

[Khairan]

Originally Posted by Jaysh

General Surgery. Why did you have to pick such a girly specialty?

You know it's girly because of the ridiculous hats they wear:







*runs and hides in a dark room from bruinrab*

[Bruinrab]

Originally Posted by Khairan

You know it's girly because of the ridiculous hats they wear:







*runs and hides in a dark room from bruinrab*

Never underestimate the wrath of a girl who spent 14 hours in the OR for a micro case.

Hey, at least there won't be an hours violation!

P.S. People felt bad for me. WTH?! This is nowhere near the worst hours I've had.

P.P.S. I still think it's hilarious that orthopods are the only guys who wear the bouffant.

[Bruinrab]

Medicine is truly a small world. My dad got a consult yesterday from a guy who I knew from my sub-internship (he was one of the interns). I met the guy on the east coast, my dad met him on the west coast.

[Jaysh]

Man, I have no idea which specialty I want to do. I'm vacillating between a few fields, namely forensic psychiatry, emergency med, and PMR.

[RestlessSoul]

call me formal, but I don't think I could pick anything that requires me to wear scrubs all day. currently I wear nice casual pants and a shirt to get to the hospital, only to change and look like a bhunghi with a stethoscope the rest of the day.

[MossadConspiracy]

Originally Posted by RestlessSoul

call me formal, but I don't think I could pick anything that requires me to wear scrubs all day. currently I wear nice casual pants and a shirt to get to the hospital, only to change and look like a bhunghi with a stethoscope the rest of the day.

you should do derm

ws

[RestlessSoul]

Originally Posted by MossadConspiracy

you should do derm

ws

pimple popper, MD? i'll pass, hehe

btw, I should clarify that my previous comment applies to me alone....most people look cool in scrubs.

[MossadConspiracy]

Originally Posted by RestlessSoul

pimple popper, MD? i'll pass, hehe

btw, I should clarify that my previous comment applies to me alone....most people look cool in scrubs.

derms are usually the best dressed and the best looking

plastics too, but they wear scrubs

[Bruinrab]

I my scrubs.

But yeah, even for me, I sometimes want to wear regular clothes to feel like a "real" doctor.

[Jaysh]

I would love to wear scrubs all day long. So comfy.

[PhDGirl]

Originally Posted by Khairan

Peds psych makes a lot of money too. One thing to keep in mind is whether or not the practitioners in a given field accept insurance or whether they take cash for what they do -- people taking cash obviously make a lot more.

Another thing you have to take into account is how much you make after malpractice. Malpractice for ob, for instance, can range into the hundreds of thousands per year, and that comes right out of your salary if you are in private practice. I can't comment on forensic psych as a field because I don't know much about it, but these are some things to consider before you go nuts with the numbers.

Plus, salaries are cyclical. Just because something is well-paid now does not mean that it will be the case in a few years. For example, plastic surgery used to be very well paid and general surgery was "meh". Now, the landscape has changed because of the economy and because so many general surgeons were specializing. Now, some of the general surgery offers are more attractive than sub specialties. The balance will probably shift again in a few years, so it's better to do something you like versus chasing figures that may or may not actually apply.

[minab]

If I was in medschool i'd do ER, I did clinical research in the ER, it was so....interesting