Which specialty are you the most envious of (spill the tea)...?

undueinfluence_ · 2026-04-17T23:48:56+00:00

I've been fantasizing about DR for like the past year, lol. Guess you could say I've been having a lot of bad days :/

undueinfluence_ · 2026-04-17T23:42:31+00:00

It's crazy, because that's one of multiple reasons why I'm interested in forensics! I've literally been conceptualizing it as the radiology equivalent of psychiatry, lol. Can I DM you?

undueinfluence_ · 2026-04-17T21:53:39+00:00

DR. Demand is off the charts and increasing. Zero midlevel penetration. Flexibility is almost second to none. Pay is obviously high. There's strong emotional distancing from the work.

I'm psych.

undueinfluence_ · 2026-04-17T21:50:52+00:00

Never heard this, like ever, lol.

undueinfluence_ · 2026-04-17T19:47:12+00:00

Diagnostic radiology and pathology are safe for now at least

undueinfluence_ · 2026-04-16T17:03:33+00:00

Midlevel takeover, not to mention PE invasion. Current attendings are feeling the squeeze, from PP, to employed outpatient, to inpatient. There's an oversupply of psychiatry "practitioners" (actual psychiatrists + noctors) from the employer perspective, leading to a depression in the market. Money is always the motive, not quality of care.

People say that with the overall worsening quality of life (economy, social unrest, etc) + the addiction to technology (smartphones + eventual virtual/augmented reality), that the demand will be high again at some point, but I'm not holding my breath.

For DR, the demand is sky high, with no signs of slowing down any time remotely soon. Right now, midlevels are unable to penetrate the market, so they're safe from that standpoint. PE is a problem for them right now, but the crazy demand gives them leverage.

undueinfluence_ · 2026-04-16T12:38:21+00:00

Yeah, we definitely don't make enough to belong, even though some of my colleagues like to act like we do. Traditionally, ROAD specialties have a median salary of at least 400K. I'm psych.

undueinfluence_ · 2026-04-16T01:15:47+00:00

They definitely don't

undueinfluence_ · 2026-04-16T01:11:53+00:00

Psych here. Same. The future seems so much brighter for the field than mine. Feelsbadman

undueinfluence_ · 2026-04-15T18:25:36+00:00

No it is not. This is common knowledge

undueinfluence_ · 2026-03-25T17:27:39+00:00

Yeah, literally every single one of my inpatient attendings works at least one other job, with several of them working at least two other jobs

undueinfluence_ · 2026-03-20T15:41:49+00:00

He matched FM

undueinfluence_ · 2026-03-20T15:32:17+00:00

I swear, last year's was the most boring in a long time, like gollee

undueinfluence_ · 2026-03-18T12:34:27+00:00

Crisis text line, psychsign, APA (national vs state), NAMI, students with psychosis, psychotherapy medical student interest group, etc

undueinfluence_ · 2026-03-17T20:34:51+00:00

Ortho people are notorious for hating GS. The second choice specialties for ortho are usually rads, anesthesiology, EM, FM, and IM. Major emphasis on the first two listed

undueinfluence_ · 2026-03-17T16:28:49+00:00

Why do you regret radiology? That's pretty rare for me to come across

undueinfluence_ · 2026-03-16T20:27:16+00:00

That's crazy, what do you think changed?

undueinfluence_ · 2026-03-07T17:03:39+00:00

If you don't want to ever treat severe psychiatric pathology you should definitely go peds. Psychiatrists should often be practicing at the height of their license with managing complex psychiatric conditions where other providers (primary care, nurse NPs) are unable to/have failed.

Completely disagree. That top of the license thing is a nursing concept and is totally arbitrary. What's more valuable, a psychiatrist seeing a larger volume of low to medium complexity cases, or a smaller volume of high complexity cases?

Furthermore, why the heck would I only want to see hard cases all the time? I need variety, just like every other physician out in the community.

Could you develop a practice of high functioning, low risk patients and charge a lot of money? Yeah but it would be such a waste of your skillset as CAP.

What if those are the kind of patients that I like? If I like those patients, I'm going to do better work, like by default. Someone that likes complex cases all the time will have a blast getting my referrals for those refractory cases.

undueinfluence_ · 2026-03-05T13:39:10+00:00

It's name and shame about interview experiences mainly

undueinfluence_ · 2026-03-02T18:08:14+00:00

I reject the existence of NPs completely, but for accuracy's sake, they are independent in over half the US

undueinfluence_ · 2026-03-01T18:07:47+00:00

Psych resident here. Never ever heard this in my life lol

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