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Why you a middle aged guy now

Middle ages. I meant Middle ages

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Everyone we have an announcement to make

Meme review

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Do you guys think medical and engineering could work as a career?

I’m trying to decide whether I want more school or a trade job

Military is paying for it, plus I have so many interests both in the medical field and mechanical engineering that it’s hard to choose

in medical you do about 20 things and procedures 100% of the time

tends to get very repetitive and the one time you get something weird its too rare for you to recognise it anyway so you send the patient to someone else qualified in their 20 repetitive things plus its very binding to the state and you are but a worker in the hospital so you have to personally do your work and depend on employer for life.

AND there is a new developing branch in law based arround patients suing doctors

and there is always the option of catching something from a patient

so unless you have a burning and everlasting desire to save people who are not high on the iq scale who can always sue you and transfer to you their plague id recommend the trades

@Pacific_Twist I work in systems engineering/devops in technology and I love it but I too always felt torn between medicine (surgeon) and engineering. I think it comes down to - do you want to save lives in an operational role or do you want to build/create systems? Now, you could build medical software/hardware as an engineer, too, and inadvertently heal people. Writing software that makes doctors more efficient is my end goal and MAYBE that will scale better than a career as a doctor. I never had that burning desire to heal people but it was always in the back of my mind. I may have made the wrong choice but I will keep going down this path since I have my BS and 6 years experience in the field by 2020.

I agree with @Commanda Knuckel about medicine from the little experience I have. I shadowed nurses, ER and doctors only twice in my life but I have 2 nursing friends and one physician assistant friend who decided it's not worth the time/energy/financial cost of more school.

Biomedical engineering is viable but it's very niche and from what I've heard requires a masters to really be seen as hirable since it's market is smaller. A mechanical/software engineer who also works in medicine would give you a wider market for your skills.

Biomedical/medical is also extremely female-dominated.

and i just say to my artist colleagues that i learned my body proportions and anatomy from medical 😄

That's awesome 😉

How much schooling did you go through before cutting losses @Commanda Knuckel?

Or are you still in it?

still in

What is your end goal?

Surgery has been the only medicine to appeal to me. I may be a sociopath.

I know this is controversial but outside surgery I don't value doctors very much haha. Most everything else is behavioral after that.

I agree. The thing is I’m a medic in the military and being a doctor was about research for me. The prospect of getting sued or “attempting” to heal is something that seems futile. As in, providing care to someone and letting them know it’s there diet or lifestyle that’s causing this but all they’d want are pills.

there is a sanatorium thingie 100m from my house in the forest where i have my greenhouse, beehives and hotel 😄

@Commanda Knuckel Oh that is cool!

For sure surgery. Docs are aces at plugging, closing, and mending.

End goal...

@Pacific_Twist Thank you for your service!

Good shit. I'm glad we're of similar mind to that.

I keep thinking genetics/AI (machine learning) I’m just not sure on the viability of it

I still think about going to school to become a surgeon lol.

my professors offer me to teach me but i was an artist before medicine and i will be one after it

🤙🏼 np I did it to heal and provide care to people defending my country.