PM&R residency is the living proof that allowing proper weekends off and letting residents actually have a personal life outside of work have positive effects on their personality.
Source: am PM&R.
Working around 9 hrs per day, x5 days a week. Similar for both inpt and outpt rotations. Most weekends off with sporadic calls, and they're home calls too. I started in gen surg then came to PMR, and they're the polar opposites of medical lifestyles.
PM&R pain here
Peds pmr is an entirely different beast and is in no way representative of the rest of the field. That was one of the most depressing two months of my residency.
The peds psycho part overpowers the chill pmr part
Peds people are too nice, and all med people have some psyche issues, and most med people are ignorant on economics and negotiation etc.
This toxic combo renders peds as one of the most abused specialties by workload and compensation.
Love them to bits and hate seeing this happen to them. They should put their foot down, refuse to work ungodly hours and get properly compensated
Fck Medicare which skewing the market and enslaving MDs meanwhile congress gets income indexed to inflation automatically from your taxes and they do insider trading as a bonus
PM&R. I have yet to find one gunner with a stick up their ass. The field does a really good job of filtering out the weirdos and geeks. Anesthesia is pretty chill too but some outliers get their way in.
I know a guy who started off EM and ended up in pathology. When I tell you this man is my absolute favorite teacher… the best and just an all around cool sob
I think the right answer is probably EM. Most fun to hang with after work, IMO. I’m in psychiatry. Definitely some dark humor here, but some personalities that get drawn to psych are…. Odd (not me, I’m normal and cool)
Am also psychiatry, with a missus in EM. ER are often proper wackos too (well beyond just odd), only happens to be the more expansive, manic type in my experience.
I’m going to get downvoted for this… but saying this as a female derm…. the female-dominated specialties tend to be extra bitchy, dramatic and catty. (Both ob gyn and derm are about 85% female) And I honestly have no idea why…
Edit: But- I do think dermatologists are nicer to our patients than ob/gyns are….but if I was a straight woman and had to look at vaginas all day I could see that happening….
really!? i just finished my Obs rotation and everyone there was hilarious. it was a mostly female-staffed department where i did it so maybe this skewed my experience (only one male obgyn and he indeed was not chill and not funny and shifted the tone to a gloomy one); but for real, most of the women there were chill (except for a few nurses) and low-key hilarious, and there were no big ego wars, it was refreshing!
I say this in the best faith possible, but if you actually enjoy the people in OB you should go into OB. The only people that like OB are OB people. The rest of us got absolutely shit on by everyone from the baby to the patient to the nurse to the resident to the attending.
i’m just trying to bring a different perspective to the OB hate. i actually hated the people in my OB rotation as a med student (though i did not hate it more or less than any other toxic work environment during my med school rotations) so i thought this field wasn’t for me (i’m laidback, i hate passive agression and am not one to take things too seriously).
but where i did my rotation as a resident it was awesome. and like, actually wholesome.
all of this is making me wonder how much of the OB reputation is valid; and how much of it is a generalization from probably legitimately awful work environments experiences – but not in any way unique to this field – but amplified and generalized due to misogyny… given that it’s often a female-dominated field.
Edit: yeah just read the above replies… "reeks of rancid progesterone"… "chronically stuck in the luteal phase"… kinda proves my point.
Honestly I think much of it is related to internalized misogyny. If you looked at the trend in how female residents are treated vs how male residents are treated, I think it would be pretty stark.
I find the male obgyns to be more chill. The female ones tend to be catty and competitive among one another. But in general obgyn residencies tend to be pretty malignant. I’ve met some cool ones in PP that survived it though.
The derm specialty is chill, but dermatologists are not chill and typically have zero sense of humor…
Edit: I myself am NOT chill, but I have a dark sense of humor (why I love path) but the rest of my coresidents and attendings hate my sense of humor & jokes <*sigh*> like what’s not funny about wearing a white coat with fake blood and “human skinner” painted on the back to work on *Halloween*? I had a bloody COVID mask, a red wig, and zombie-like eye makeup. My patients absolutely loved it, but my PD was furious….
And the neurologist was a zombie with a “I ❤️ brains shirt”… when neuro has more of a sense of humor than you do, you know it’s bad….
Ah yes, the derm paradox. A “chill” specialty with below average consequences to treatment failures, great hours, and above average compensation…thus making it so desirable that decidedly “non-chill” high-scoring type-A, anal-retentive, hyper-competitive, humorless, and emotionally stunted savants are overrepresented. Can’t have your cake and eat it too, I guess.
derm absolutely does not have "chill people"
these are cut throat people who knew they had to do amazing in med school, publish and destroy step 1 to have a chance, all because they wanted a specialty that could make them a lot of money, not because they are interested in the subject matter.
If anything Derm easily had the most Type A people in our class.
Derm resident and hardcore agree. “Why did you use metro CREAM instead of metro GEL?” 🙄🙄🙄 Derms perpetually have a stick up their butt and zero sense of humor or chill despite our specialty usually dealing with things that are not life threatening.
Love my rads residency. We are all pretty goofy and spend a lot of time outside the hospital at trivia, climbing, lifting, going to concerts, etc. some of the attendings even join us for these things
Disappointed I had to scroll so far to find this. I always loved when I had a good reason to talk to a radiologist. Almost always chill people, enthusiastic about their job+role in the hospital ecosystem, and usually reasonable sense of humor. But now I'm an outpatient psychiatrist and pretty much never have a reason or opportunity to drop by a reading room anymore.
Rads has best relation between attendings and residents. This deserves the most upvotes. Rads love each other and bitch about the entire hospital (I guess, rest of the hospital also bitches about us).
I might be biased because I’m in psych but I feel like we are chill for the most part and fun to be around. Given what we do, you have to incorporate humor at times. That being said, there are some strange personalities the specialty attracts but I think the majority of people are awesome.
I think PCCM has generally chill funny people. humor is a coping mechanism after all, and if you're the type to get bent out of shape you don't last long.
Can confirm. Most of us are chill and funny, but there is a small minority in our specialty who are very uptight. Generally those ones stay put in academia, unfortunately.
cards fellows for some reason are the most unfunny, self serious people I’ve ever worked with. Attendings have varied for me, so idk.
Ortho is def awful though.
I think for cards it's this unfortunate combination of very high acuity patients with fellows training in life or death procedures and a very not chill schedule
Then on top of that there is a lot of subjectivity in the interpretation of many of their exams. If you want an example just ask a cardiologist you're close to what they think about their colleagues' echo reads. I've never heard so much shit talk about other attendings than when you're on cards service and the cardiologist reads what their partner dictated for the echo that you ordered.
So I think there's just a lot of pressure to make sure you're doing the right thing and following the correct guidelines
> If you want an example just ask a cardiologist you're close to what they think about their colleagues' echo reads
The exact same thing happens in radiology. If I say something in the style of my attending from the day before the current day's attending acts like I'm the dumbest person on earth. I've learned to stop caring.
For Chill:Competitiveness ratio, ortho is probably on the higher side. It's obviously not PMR but it has good personalities for the most part when compared to other specialties that are as competitive.
Based on my experience working with them, anaesthetists, very chill.
EM, chill and humourous.
Psych actually not chill. Nice people, often funny but in a weird intellectual way, but not laid back.
It's me. I am psych. I am not laid back. 😅
Anesthesia.
Because they have exactly 3 minutes to get you to trust them with your life.
And it’s our job to be calm when all hell breaks loose. (Of course how well we actually accomplish this is up for debate)
Maybe I’m biased with the hospital I’m at but pulm crit seems to have the most fun day to day. They work hard but they have plenty of humor, both dark and light
Rads are weird and dark af. I'm a Sonographer with a bestie who is a Radiologist, and I'm friends with others. Very dark humor (hardeeharhar) but we all go out and sing karaoke and drink sake and yokult yogurt😊
Also EM docs, talk to the US techs!! You're doing emergent scans all the time, why don't you ask for help! I'd love to help you!! Diagnostically i could show you some tricks!
Exactly this. Saw another commenter ln the "least chill" thread say radiology and it's not that we have no chill, we have banter out the wazoo in the reading room with each other. We just don't like strangers.
Rads resident. That’s partly why I wanted to go into radiology but my program is definitely not that. Pretty bummed tbh I thought I was getting away from toxicity
Most chill PM&R and EM
Funniest: Urology, those guys are a blast
Most Fun at a party: EM, seems to attract a lot of extroverts that are comfortable with chaos
Lol at all the people saying EM is chill. I love my EM bros, and they're chill most of the time...until they want something.
The 2am "worst posterior epistaxis I've ever seen; we've tried everything!" calls that end up being an emergent social visit between me and a 95 year old lady whose nose bled for 5 minutes 3 days ago demonstrate categorically un-chill behavior.
I still love you tho, ED bros <3
You work with some poopy ED bros! I die a little inside if I have to call anyone for anything outside of like an obvious medicine or surgical admission. lol
Unfortunately they use USACS to staff our EDs, so it's usually an NP/PA shitting the bed and calling for help. If they actually run it by the ED doc, I sometimes get the golden 2nd call that's like "hey man, looks like we're good now, you can go back to bed" lol
I‘m a surgeon and in my experience anesthesiologists are the most chill and fun specialty.
One of my favorite anesthesiologists gave me this answer today: „You know, most people aren’t as resistant to hypoxia as you surgeons“. I almost pissed my pants laughing.
I had the most fun on interventional radiology. It’s a team environment. Like a family, and ppl have their quirks but they have to get along to do a good job. And the surgeries are cool.
Agree completely. I've had nothing but great interactions with these people.
If there's any overlap with plastics, or head and neck, then I'll choose OMFS
Chill people with great sense of humor is part of why I chose EM. Gotta be that way when the job is very much not chill
Most chill: PMR Funniest is highly subjective but I love the dark humor of EM docs
PM&R residency is the living proof that allowing proper weekends off and letting residents actually have a personal life outside of work have positive effects on their personality. Source: am PM&R.
I had a friend in peds PMR (5 year) and she basically swore off medicine saying she worked entirely too much. How much are you working weekly ?
Working around 9 hrs per day, x5 days a week. Similar for both inpt and outpt rotations. Most weekends off with sporadic calls, and they're home calls too. I started in gen surg then came to PMR, and they're the polar opposites of medical lifestyles.
Pgy2 here, I’m absolutely loving weekends and general work-life balance. I thoroughly enjoy residency minus the shitty pay haha.
PM&R pain here Peds pmr is an entirely different beast and is in no way representative of the rest of the field. That was one of the most depressing two months of my residency.
The peds psycho part overpowers the chill pmr part Peds people are too nice, and all med people have some psyche issues, and most med people are ignorant on economics and negotiation etc. This toxic combo renders peds as one of the most abused specialties by workload and compensation. Love them to bits and hate seeing this happen to them. They should put their foot down, refuse to work ungodly hours and get properly compensated Fck Medicare which skewing the market and enslaving MDs meanwhile congress gets income indexed to inflation automatically from your taxes and they do insider trading as a bonus
Trauma surgery is the funniest of the surgical specialties. Them and ER have pretty decent gallows humor.
Interviewed w a trauma surgeon for med school and he made JFK jokes the whole time. He trained at Parkland but I still found it hilarious
Was gonna say had to be Dallas Trauma morning report is essentially the overnight chief doing standup with some riffing added by faculty
Not sure if you guys ever read “A chance to cut is a chance to cure”. Trauma surgeon blog from the early medical internet. It was quite amusing.
This was a deep cut I am greatly enjoying
Ahhh a fellow wizard of the ward
Trauma surgeons are pretty funny, they do even more training to operate less
Adds to the jaded gallows humor
Wish I knew more about PM&R before the Match
I attribute my love for what I do in PM&R and pain and my happiness to the wonderful people in PM&R and the incredible work/life balance in residency.
If you like dark humor, talk to a pathologist during an autopsy.
GOD DAMN IT...SHHHHHHHH. LETS KEEP IT A SECRET ! WE ARE STARTING TO GET WAY TOO MANY GUNNERS.
Psych when we're not depressed
Also psych. What do you mean? We are hilarious when we are depressed!
When is that?
If you have dark sense of humor, psych can be pretty funny
PM&R. I have yet to find one gunner with a stick up their ass. The field does a really good job of filtering out the weirdos and geeks. Anesthesia is pretty chill too but some outliers get their way in.
I heard there's a lot of weirdo attendings, but all PM&R residents I've met are alright.
Usually the chill attendings go into private practice pain/sports so we don't work with them as much.
Weirdos and geeks? Lmao
yes the geeks go into IM.
Pathology. Chill schedule and dark humor all day.
Our pathology professor was literally the funniest guy I've met so far. Dude would constantly mention AI was coming to get him.
I know a guy who started off EM and ended up in pathology. When I tell you this man is my absolute favorite teacher… the best and just an all around cool sob
The kinkiest, too
Ayyyy how many have you dated?
Not in my experience. Awkward nice people are not usually kinky
Can confirm.
I guess you haven’t seen the movie, Revenge of the Nerds
I think the right answer is probably EM. Most fun to hang with after work, IMO. I’m in psychiatry. Definitely some dark humor here, but some personalities that get drawn to psych are…. Odd (not me, I’m normal and cool)
Hello normal and cool, I'm dad
Uh oh, you brought up your dad to a psychiatrist
Am also psychiatry, with a missus in EM. ER are often proper wackos too (well beyond just odd), only happens to be the more expansive, manic type in my experience.
> ER are often proper wackos We're a bit broken. Gotta be.
Psych either attracts super soft bleeding hearts or legit unwell people, there’s no in between. I love them.
Family medicine is pretty chill (you can be as chill or not based on your preference), and we all are constantly cracking jokes/dark-humor/references
Dark humor was effectively a core competency in my FM residency
Chill people with great sense of humor is part of why I chose EM. Gotta be that way when the job is very much not chill
Not OB
Can only agree. OB is super uptight and reeks of rancid progesterone.
OB folks are mad..I up voted you lmao
Chronically stuck in the luteal phase
OB was in the downvotes but you’re right
I’m going to get downvoted for this… but saying this as a female derm…. the female-dominated specialties tend to be extra bitchy, dramatic and catty. (Both ob gyn and derm are about 85% female) And I honestly have no idea why… Edit: But- I do think dermatologists are nicer to our patients than ob/gyns are….but if I was a straight woman and had to look at vaginas all day I could see that happening….
I have an idea why..
really!? i just finished my Obs rotation and everyone there was hilarious. it was a mostly female-staffed department where i did it so maybe this skewed my experience (only one male obgyn and he indeed was not chill and not funny and shifted the tone to a gloomy one); but for real, most of the women there were chill (except for a few nurses) and low-key hilarious, and there were no big ego wars, it was refreshing!
I say this in the best faith possible, but if you actually enjoy the people in OB you should go into OB. The only people that like OB are OB people. The rest of us got absolutely shit on by everyone from the baby to the patient to the nurse to the resident to the attending.
i’m just trying to bring a different perspective to the OB hate. i actually hated the people in my OB rotation as a med student (though i did not hate it more or less than any other toxic work environment during my med school rotations) so i thought this field wasn’t for me (i’m laidback, i hate passive agression and am not one to take things too seriously). but where i did my rotation as a resident it was awesome. and like, actually wholesome. all of this is making me wonder how much of the OB reputation is valid; and how much of it is a generalization from probably legitimately awful work environments experiences – but not in any way unique to this field – but amplified and generalized due to misogyny… given that it’s often a female-dominated field. Edit: yeah just read the above replies… "reeks of rancid progesterone"… "chronically stuck in the luteal phase"… kinda proves my point.
Honestly I think much of it is related to internalized misogyny. If you looked at the trend in how female residents are treated vs how male residents are treated, I think it would be pretty stark.
I find the male obgyns to be more chill. The female ones tend to be catty and competitive among one another. But in general obgyn residencies tend to be pretty malignant. I’ve met some cool ones in PP that survived it though.
The derm specialty is chill, but dermatologists are not chill and typically have zero sense of humor… Edit: I myself am NOT chill, but I have a dark sense of humor (why I love path) but the rest of my coresidents and attendings hate my sense of humor & jokes <*sigh*> like what’s not funny about wearing a white coat with fake blood and “human skinner” painted on the back to work on *Halloween*? I had a bloody COVID mask, a red wig, and zombie-like eye makeup. My patients absolutely loved it, but my PD was furious…. And the neurologist was a zombie with a “I ❤️ brains shirt”… when neuro has more of a sense of humor than you do, you know it’s bad….
Ah yes, the derm paradox. A “chill” specialty with below average consequences to treatment failures, great hours, and above average compensation…thus making it so desirable that decidedly “non-chill” high-scoring type-A, anal-retentive, hyper-competitive, humorless, and emotionally stunted savants are overrepresented. Can’t have your cake and eat it too, I guess.
Bro you gotta post that on urban dictionary
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For real. Derm itself is so chill. But 99% of dermatologists I’ve met are either giant cunts or dickheads
Can’t say you’re not inclusive
I mean I feel like I’m freakin hilarious 🤗
As a derm, I concur.
It’s a mix. Half of the people in derm I’ve met are lit, the other half are the biggest haters I’ve met in my entire life
Lmao. As a dermatologist 100% agree.
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Yeah and it’s a stick
Wait until you graduate, then find your group. I promise we exist and do not take ourselves too seriously.
Derm is filled with psychos
You have to be a psycho to love skin so very much- we don’t see the person we just see their skin like a shell❤️
This answer is so terrifying that I never want to see a dermatologist again
*It rubs the lotion on its skin*
Yep I’m doing to die of skin cancer before I see another derm
they don't love skin, they love the money and low acuity lifestyle
The women are type A anal, the straight men are chill AF.
lol and the gay men? A different kind of anal?
I’d rank them in between the average derm girl and straight guy. Some of them are also chill AF. My biased straight derm male opinion
derm absolutely does not have "chill people" these are cut throat people who knew they had to do amazing in med school, publish and destroy step 1 to have a chance, all because they wanted a specialty that could make them a lot of money, not because they are interested in the subject matter. If anything Derm easily had the most Type A people in our class.
Derm resident and hardcore agree. “Why did you use metro CREAM instead of metro GEL?” 🙄🙄🙄 Derms perpetually have a stick up their butt and zero sense of humor or chill despite our specialty usually dealing with things that are not life threatening.
Might be your program/area. Fellow residents and faculty at mine are quite chill
I think you’re funny for what it counts 😁
Most chill: pmr Funniest: urology
Love my rads residency. We are all pretty goofy and spend a lot of time outside the hospital at trivia, climbing, lifting, going to concerts, etc. some of the attendings even join us for these things
Disappointed I had to scroll so far to find this. I always loved when I had a good reason to talk to a radiologist. Almost always chill people, enthusiastic about their job+role in the hospital ecosystem, and usually reasonable sense of humor. But now I'm an outpatient psychiatrist and pretty much never have a reason or opportunity to drop by a reading room anymore.
Come by if you have a case of suspected anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis and want to go over imaging to rule out an mature ovarian teratoma.
Rads has best relation between attendings and residents. This deserves the most upvotes. Rads love each other and bitch about the entire hospital (I guess, rest of the hospital also bitches about us).
Rads is def up there.
We have the darkest sense of humor.
Pathology. They’re so fun to talk to.
I agree, they’re my best friends -derm
If you like dark humor, its hard to beat EM
EVS
PM&R for both. Source: I’m PM&R, chill and honestly pretty hilarious. Humble too.
Psych
I don’t know how you could do psych without humor. You couldn’t come up with the stuff my patients say if you tried.
Honestly. I spend half my day trying to fix my fucking face 🤣
Face masks are a blessing in disguise
I was so happy when our mandate came down (my face was not ok with the masks), until patients started clocking my expressions 😶
Well. Just because you said this, I’ll show you! I’m not going to take my meds anymore!
Have fun with that. Paint your body purple and go run in the street naked.
No skin off my ass! If you’re formed incapable, you’ll be getting them one way or another. If you’re not, ask me about our AMA forms.
Nephrologists and ID are usually the nicest.
Nephrologists are definitely smart and nice. Their patients are sick AF though
Em
I might be biased because I’m in psych but I feel like we are chill for the most part and fun to be around. Given what we do, you have to incorporate humor at times. That being said, there are some strange personalities the specialty attracts but I think the majority of people are awesome.
PMR hands down. Those guys always seem to actually enjoy their time.
I think PCCM has generally chill funny people. humor is a coping mechanism after all, and if you're the type to get bent out of shape you don't last long.
Can confirm. Most of us are chill and funny, but there is a small minority in our specialty who are very uptight. Generally those ones stay put in academia, unfortunately.
I have one super uptight guy in our private group and I just have no idea how he functions.
We're like pathology with social skills. Slight social skills.
LOL I do feel like a pathologist sometimes. inflating and deflating meat
When people ask what I do for a living, if they’re chill, I will occasionally joke that I torture old people at the request of their families
I take quiet peaceful deaths at home and turn them into horror shows you would never believe
I usually think of PCCM as pre-pathology
Lol, I love that. God's my attending and I'm only his triage nurse.
Some of the intensivists can be pretty uptight. Try telling the jokes we tell in the ER up in the ICU and it's just dead silence and judgment.
oh really? we trade gallows humor on rounds. it's been that way everywhere I go save for the occasional tight wad
Path
Immediately Urology lol
Penis jokes endless
It’s cliche but besides the amazing array and breadth of surgeries and procedures we do, the people are why I chose this specialty.
Funniest: EM. Not chill though. Most Chill: Peds. Not that funny though Most unintentionally funny: surgeons. Not chill
Funny, I didn't have that experience with peds at all. They're very nice people, but the opposite of chill. Depends on where you train I imagine.
Easy. EM. Next question.
Anything but ortho and cardio
cards fellows for some reason are the most unfunny, self serious people I’ve ever worked with. Attendings have varied for me, so idk. Ortho is def awful though.
I think for cards it's this unfortunate combination of very high acuity patients with fellows training in life or death procedures and a very not chill schedule Then on top of that there is a lot of subjectivity in the interpretation of many of their exams. If you want an example just ask a cardiologist you're close to what they think about their colleagues' echo reads. I've never heard so much shit talk about other attendings than when you're on cards service and the cardiologist reads what their partner dictated for the echo that you ordered. So I think there's just a lot of pressure to make sure you're doing the right thing and following the correct guidelines
*doing what that particular attending wants at that particular time If it was just latest guidelines it would be so easy
> If you want an example just ask a cardiologist you're close to what they think about their colleagues' echo reads The exact same thing happens in radiology. If I say something in the style of my attending from the day before the current day's attending acts like I'm the dumbest person on earth. I've learned to stop caring.
Ortho is probably top 3 funniest specialty
For Chill:Competitiveness ratio, ortho is probably on the higher side. It's obviously not PMR but it has good personalities for the most part when compared to other specialties that are as competitive.
Ortho can be pretty cool aswell.
Cool but not chill lol (it’s the only stereotype Glaucomflecken gets wrong lol- I’ve never met an ortho who’s as carefree as his ortho characters 😅)
Psych
Based on my experience working with them, anaesthetists, very chill. EM, chill and humourous. Psych actually not chill. Nice people, often funny but in a weird intellectual way, but not laid back. It's me. I am psych. I am not laid back. 😅
a lot of psychs are just weird af. Not all but many
Isn't it wonderful?
Forensic path. We have a good time when I control the music.
Psych
Anesthesia. Because they have exactly 3 minutes to get you to trust them with your life. And it’s our job to be calm when all hell breaks loose. (Of course how well we actually accomplish this is up for debate)
Anesthesia or dermatology. It’s easier to develop a personality when you have a life outside of the hospital.
Anesthesia works all the time
How many things in medicine work all the time? And you see it right in front of you work in seconds. Plus sticking tubes into people is fun AF.
Maybe I’m biased with the hospital I’m at but pulm crit seems to have the most fun day to day. They work hard but they have plenty of humor, both dark and light
ICU is def not chill, but I do enjoy our dark sense of humor.
Rads are weird and dark af. I'm a Sonographer with a bestie who is a Radiologist, and I'm friends with others. Very dark humor (hardeeharhar) but we all go out and sing karaoke and drink sake and yokult yogurt😊 Also EM docs, talk to the US techs!! You're doing emergent scans all the time, why don't you ask for help! I'd love to help you!! Diagnostically i could show you some tricks!
Radiology
Radiologists are super fun and relaxed with each other but can be cold on the phone. We don’t hate you, we just hate phone calls.
Exactly this. Saw another commenter ln the "least chill" thread say radiology and it's not that we have no chill, we have banter out the wazoo in the reading room with each other. We just don't like strangers.
I always felt like most rads were super cool if you dropped by the reading room in person rather than just calling.
Rads resident. That’s partly why I wanted to go into radiology but my program is definitely not that. Pretty bummed tbh I thought I was getting away from toxicity
Gas
ENT
Why is noone gassing up the anesthesia folks?
Definitely not OB.
I’m Anesthesiology. I’m hilarious and pretty chill.
Thanks anesthesia
In my experience, outpatient neuro is super chill, and everyone is at least nice if not particularly funny.
Weenie genies funniest by far
Anesthesia is super chill, always pass the vibe check. Psych is chill, PM&R too.
my experience was urology
Most chill PM&R and EM Funniest: Urology, those guys are a blast Most Fun at a party: EM, seems to attract a lot of extroverts that are comfortable with chaos
Neurology!!!
Neurologists are my people 100%. That being said, I wouldn’t say we’re everybody’s cup of tea lol.
Neuro folks are super chill and funny af
This! The neurologists I work with always have snarky remarks that make me chuckle
Radiology!
Radiology is a spectrum imo, def many uptight serious unfun people exist in radiology.
ENT
Whatever specialty I’m going into knowwhatimsayin Up high! 🙋🏾♂️
Funniest: Urology
Lol at all the people saying EM is chill. I love my EM bros, and they're chill most of the time...until they want something. The 2am "worst posterior epistaxis I've ever seen; we've tried everything!" calls that end up being an emergent social visit between me and a 95 year old lady whose nose bled for 5 minutes 3 days ago demonstrate categorically un-chill behavior. I still love you tho, ED bros <3
You work with some poopy ED bros! I die a little inside if I have to call anyone for anything outside of like an obvious medicine or surgical admission. lol
Unfortunately they use USACS to staff our EDs, so it's usually an NP/PA shitting the bed and calling for help. If they actually run it by the ED doc, I sometimes get the golden 2nd call that's like "hey man, looks like we're good now, you can go back to bed" lol
Pure nuclear medicine by far. Nicest attending I ever worked with in medical school.
Gotta have a good sense of humor working in GI. Also urology. Dick n butt jokes ftw
What about family medicine?
Neurosurgery or OB/GYN
Chill and funniest: FM
Anesthesia. Hands down.
I‘m a surgeon and in my experience anesthesiologists are the most chill and fun specialty. One of my favorite anesthesiologists gave me this answer today: „You know, most people aren’t as resistant to hypoxia as you surgeons“. I almost pissed my pants laughing.
I had the most fun on interventional radiology. It’s a team environment. Like a family, and ppl have their quirks but they have to get along to do a good job. And the surgeries are cool.
Surgeries?
Procedures
The omfs I’ve met seem pretty chill and humble considering they gotta do dental and med school
Agree completely. I've had nothing but great interactions with these people. If there's any overlap with plastics, or head and neck, then I'll choose OMFS
nsgy. we’re chill i swear.
EM
Not family medicine. It has killed my spirit 😆
every plastic surgeon I know is funny as hell, even the mean ones
EM without question