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!)

Child psychiatry.

A geneticist probably.

I'm cack handed, so that kind of rules out anything surgical. I also wouldn't like to have to poke my finger up people's bums, so nothing to do with guts or bowels, please.

Rheumatology and immunology both interest me and don't seem to involve either of the above.

But trauma would be the most interesting and exciting, imo.

But trauma would be the most interesting and exciting, imo.

I fear that wouldn't entirely rule out bowels though.

I'd like to think I'd be an obstetrician/gynaecologist as it seems quite varied and I'd love to be helping women on a daily basis, or palliative care.

In reality I'd be a GP as I'm probably not clever enough, even in my fantasies, to do the dream jobs.

Also, my dh is one and I think his job sounds really interesting (he works in a rural area and is one of the all-but-vanished old fashioned family doctor types who can do everything from delivering babies (only once in an emergency because he got there before the ambulance, he was terrified!!) and sorting out your hospice-at-home palliative care and visiting family after your death. And everything in between. He even has a tweed jacket!

I'm a radiologist as I love puzzles!!

It would have to be an orthopaedic surgeon - power tools all the way!

Pathology or trauma.
I’ve got a morbid curiosity about death and body parts
I also have a decent amount of trauma training from my army days, which was put into practice a few times. It’s a very fast paced, dirty job but you are literally the first point of call to patch someone up as best you can before the specialists can come in and fix them properly with a bit more finesse

Wouldn't want to be a doctor... But I did become fascinated by speech, language, communication and swallowing problems when dd2 came along with issues.

Heading back to uni to do speech and language therapy in September.

Allergies. Recent stories of children dying tragically because of severe allergies makes me want far more research into this area. I'd like to know as well why it seems to becoming more widespread.