How specialties really differ: the work, the hours, the training, the money and the life around them. Written from evidence and from doctors in each field, never from rank lists alone.
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- What is the work actually like, day to day?
- How long is training, and what does it ask?
- How does each specialty pay, and how does that change over a career?
- How might technology change the field?
- What if I change my mind later?
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Twenty-five paths through medicine, clinical and beyond.
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Paths that belong to this topic: the work, training, life and money of each.
The first doctor for whoever comes through the door, at any hour.
The detective work of adult medicine, across every organ system.
Diagnosis that ends in an operation, and responsibility that continues after it.
Seeing inside the body, and telling everyone else what it means.
Medicine of the mind, practised through conversation and care over time.
Family medicine and general practice
First contact, whole person, for years.
Making surgery possible, and safe, minute by minute.
The diagnosis behind the diagnosis.
A visual specialty with clinical depth and a busy outpatient life.
Keeping the sickest patients alive, one organ system at a time.
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