Any medical professionals here? Curious to know if there are other Apple enthusiasts on these boards who also have a passion for medicine and patient care.
I'm in medical school and about to graduate with my MD. Gearing up for residency in ENT/head and neck surgery. (Match day is coming!)
Congrats, that’s quite an accomplishment. Feels nice to be done and moving on, eh?
I’m a PharmD with board certification in psychiatric pharmacy. I provide clinical pharmacy services in a psych hospital, which means most of my job revolves around consulting patients and other medical staff, adjusting medications of complex patient cases, etc. Despite the psych specialization, a lot of what I do involves helping manage physical health problems, like diabetes, when patients come in, often with such problems also not well managed.
Because of COVID, I have been periodically been redeployed PT to provide similar services for a general hospital in our network.
About 5-6 years ago one of my friends colleagues, a psychiatrist, along with a couple other people, joined together to open a premium residential psych/addiction program for high functioning adult men, which has worked out very well. Addiction treatment is lucrative right now as a private pay program... Making this investment was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. I don’t provide clinical services here, but am involved with some of the big picture operations... more than I’d like to be.
Most healthcare professionals hate pharmacology and working with psych patients, yet somehow I enjoy both. I find it very rewarding to see psych patients, especially those with addiction (which is 50-75%), turn their life around completely and achieve successful lives. And these are the people much of society often writes off. It is often very challenging population to work with, but that’s what makes it interesting.
My fiancée is wrapping up the final stretch of her cardiology fellowship plus many docs in my family. So I’ve been enveloped in healthcare for as long as I know.
Congrats again. Best of luck with your matching, I hope you’re satisfied with the results!
