To ask if you were a doctor (assuming you're not already)...

[TheTitOfTheIceberg]

...what would your speciality be?

I'd be torn between gynaecology to help the maximum number of women that I could (not least because we've been second class in so many areas of healthcare over the years) or endocrinology because it sounds fascinating and based on what little I know of it, it seems to be linked to so many other issues - it feels like we're still scratching the surface of what we know about hormones and their impact on various conditions.

(This is a very random musing - I have no medical connections at all, other than as a patient!)

GP. I’d love the variety and problem solving. I also know I really enjoy the clinic environment (work in GP surgeries as a community midwife and ironically would hate to do O&G).

.... But I also want to be Dr. House and be a shit hot diagnostics expert.

Paediatric neurologist. There’s too few of them and more research needs to be done abuses, treatment and medication.

So....how badly do cracked ribs hurt? Asking for me a friend

“Into” not abuses 🙄

Anaesthesia

Probably a surgeon (I would be fully booked with just my family if I was) if not that then I think maybe the people who do autopsies because then I can’t really do anything which would be the cause of someone’s death (that would be my fear being a dr of some sort)

Either Gastro or Colorectal. Fascinating!!

I am a doctor and I still don't know what to specialise in. So far anaesthetics is the winner but my main objective is to never, ever, be the medic on call,which all the 'ology' professions would involve years of

Radiology. Sitting at home in my pants reporting.

Paleontologist
What do you mean, that's not a real doctor?

Ah! Radiology is a good call. Run through training, reporting in pants (is that only consultants?) er, interventional super wizardry, and stuff nobody else has a clue about.

Does that make me a radiology recruiter then?

Anaesthetics for me.

What do you mean, that's not a real doctor?

A&E is the best. Anaesthetics was fun but doing the same lists every week would bore me to tears.

I’m fascinated be the heart so cardiology for me. I’m also happy to work with feet so podiatry and biomechanics would be my fall back. Definitely not eyes. They’re my kryptonite.

Hypermobility syndrome disorders. So much ignorance in the medical field.. there is even a scientific study saying how patients find this and another about how undiagnosed it is.

Only 1 person has mentioned my specialty

Under diagnosed.

Obviously the connective tissue in my brain has gone saggy...

A&E or Neurosurgery. I’ve had a number of neurosurgies, and I’ve experienced brilliant, or awful, consultants. I’d really like to make a difference to people like me.
If I’d have been bright enough, I always wanted to be a medic. In real life, I’m something VERY different.

I’ve always had a hankering for being an arsey a&e nurse bullying inexperienced ambulance crews and f1s and being an angel to patients. That or pathology.

Immunologist. I find the immune system fascinating!

ED/Trauma. I’m a paramedic so get to see them work a lot and am in awe of their sheer skill.