If you had to start over, would you be an emergency medicine physician again? #shorts

[Mockturtlesoup]

Ever since I was a kid I wanted to be an emergency medicine doctor and/or trauma surgeon(mostly because of the show ER that my sister and I(and our father, who owned a pharmacy on the Hartford Hospital campus in the medical building across from HH and the Children's Hospital) watched obsessively.)
I've always felt like it could be an extremely rewarding career, but also a depressing, even "dangerous"/precarious job in terms of making mistakes when you only have minutes, or even seconds to make a decision.
I always felt like the problem solving aspect would be very rewarding, especially when when you find the reason/solution to why someone has been suffering for months or years, despite them going to several doctors/specialists to try to figure it out. I also feel like it would be an exciting(though probably exhausting) job as well, especially on the nights and weekends.

[silasollegario]

Funny on how wrong he was. Emergency Medicine has been suffering with less and less future doctors wanting to become ER docs. This year’s Match there was over 500 EM spots UNFILLED

[alexdittes]

It's funny watching this after EM just had the worst match in history a year ago and we are now extremely short on em docs

[dn]

Awesome video! This is possibly one of the first ones I've seen that takes into account the surplus of EM physicians in the US. Other ER docs I've spoken to seem to downplay that prediction.

[abubakralfaouri]

That’s an interesting was of saying no

[phungphan]

More like not enough primary care physicians to prevent some cases from becoming emergencies!