Neurosurgeon!!!!! help!!!! future career!!!!! help!!!
By Renhard
@Renhard (3471)
Jamaica
December 30, 2010 12:30pm CST
Please help me. Please spare your time and participate in this discussion. I need as much views on this as possible. Thank you.
So did you or did you not want to become a neurosurgeon?
What do you hate and what do you love about this career?
I know some people will not want to go in this career because of the years of studying? Is that any problem for any of you?
Is it that you can't take the blood? Or maybe the SALARY is too low or too high? I want to know everything about this career and your views on this career.
I love helping people. I have high dreams which requires a good salary to accomplish and neurosurgeon fits that salary. But then again you have to study for so long. And the competition is so hard. I'm willing to work hard to stay ahead of that competition.
One of my dreams is to own a lamborghini, not just to drive one but also to own one. ( No matter if it is not in fashion that time when I grow up, I don't care it could be old fashion by that time. I still want to own one. ) I want to be able to give my family money when they are in need. And I want my future children to live a life that I couldn't afford to live. I just really want a good life.
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@hora_fugit (5862)
• India
31 Dec 10
In my personal opinion they have a lot of time. But yes they will not be here, there availability is crucial somewhere else!
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@celticeagle (159194)
• Boise, Idaho
31 Dec 10
I don't feel that anyone should go into a given career just because of the money. I think you should love the work or don't bother. If you go into a career just for the money then you are cheating yourself and your patients. You won't do your best work unless you love what you do. Life is short. Don't waste it.
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@hora_fugit (5862)
• India
31 Dec 10
Sorry Ren, but the way you wrote confuses people about your intentions. You said you love helping people. But just the next sentence...
Just to remind you, I didn't accuse
Because I already noticed how irked you'll be ;)
Because I already noticed how irked you'll be ;)@Renhard (3471)
• Jamaica
31 Dec 10
Please I'm asking you please stop accusing me if going in this career for money. If you read my discussion properly you would have seen that I'm quite fascinating in this career and I love helping people. I have been fascinated in this career from a very young age and its since recently I have seen the salary. Its human for a person to have more than one interest. One of mines is to help people and another is to have a car collection. Its since recently I found out that salary could fit in the range to fulfil my other interest. Don't accuse me of going in there solely for money because I'm not.
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@derek_a (10874)
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31 Dec 10
Neuro-surgery is a very complex career and not one that I would have thought that I was ever competent enough to do as much as I would like to have the presige of such a career!
I probably would have a problem with the blood, but I think that every surgeon who trains has that problem so I would probably get over it.
I did work in the helping professions and became a therapist around 30 years ago, after a very busy career as a musician, but with very unsociable hours to work!
Good luck with your career and may I wish you a Happy New Year and all the very best of luck in 2011...
_Derek
I probably would have a problem with the blood, but I think that every surgeon who trains has that problem so I would probably get over it.
I did work in the helping professions and became a therapist around 30 years ago, after a very busy career as a musician, but with very unsociable hours to work!
Good luck with your career and may I wish you a Happy New Year and all the very best of luck in 2011..._Derek@derek_a (10874)
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31 Dec 10
I used to be a musician for about 12 years at the beginning of my career. But then it becamse harder and harder to make a regular income as people turned away places with live musicians as disco and recorded music took over. I was with a band at one time, but by the time all the travelling was done and the fee split between the musicians, there wasn't much left, so it was always better for me to work solo and freelance as a keyboard player. I was happy I went into that career and sorry that I had to leave it, but I had a family to support so it was not a good way of earning money by the early 1980s, so I re-trained as a therapist back in college. _Derek
_Derek
@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
31 Dec 10
First thing popping into my head was some silly pun about having a lot of nerve...
But seriously, it sounds like a pretty admirable goal. Best of luck to you...
@vandana7 (98859)
• India
30 Dec 10
Hi kiddo - if you want to be neurosurgeon because of salary then it is a wrong way to select a profession. You will make a grade in a profession that interests you. You may have 10 interests, but out of them all, only one would override the other. Money does make a profession attractive, but focusing only on money does not seem right to me. This is because there are legal implications relating to professions. You've to be a perfectionist. Average performance as we've got accustomed to will not do.
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@Renhard (3471)
• Jamaica
30 Dec 10
You know that you didn't read my discussion perfectly. I'm really interested in this career and honestly I didn't know that it pays much. When I started to have "certain dreams" I was just amazed that neurosurgeon fall in the same salary range. So that made me want to stick more to that career. Honestly the money wasn't what start my interest in that career. I am just interested in those things. I also love helping people. I love watching when surgeons work on people and love watching documentaries about it. So please don't accuse me of doing all this for money.
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@vandana7 (98859)
• India
30 Dec 10
Oops... I read the discussion... as usual I highlighted a point that could be a problem later... I was sharing my wisdom kiddo ...
Ok here it is... in accounts and related professions you can afford to be a bit careless, because the system will take care of it most of the time, but in serious professions like medicine and surgery and even law, you gotta be very very meticulous. It is one thing to watch it on television and find it attractive and another thing to actually do it. Personally no - I wouldnt opt for a career like that for anything under the sun... I know my limitations. :) And I am sorry if I sounded as if I accused you kiddo... that was not what I meant...I wanted to say you need an aptitude and you need to be perfect here otherwise people would be suing you.
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@hardworkinggurl (37063)
• United States
31 Dec 10
I can tell you that Neurosurgeons in the US make loads of money. The years of study are almost 15 years. However you have to have a true passion for the career as it is a load of never ending work.
Good luck to you on your career choices and remember the passion above all.
@hardworkinggurl (37063)
• United States
31 Dec 10
Forgot to mention that a simple neurosurgery on a hand here in the US can earn something like twenty grand.
@hardworkinggurl (37063)
• United States
31 Dec 10
Yeah you certainly would have to have the passion for it as it is very long. As for me that too would seem way too long, to be in school. I would feel way too exhausted to do any surgery.
@hora_fugit (5862)
• India
31 Dec 10
I have a great respect for surgeons and I love Biology too (never my subject though) but when it comes to career, I won't opt for neurosurgery. The reason is not time related as you pointed out but the fineness of work. It requires a lot of discipline and dexterity in any surgery and neurosurgery deals with something so fine!!!
15 years IS a long time but I think all neurosurgeons are that much passionate about it. As for the salary part, well... no great ambitions for me ;)
@hora_fugit (5862)
• India
31 Dec 10
I don't think I got your last sentence, but maybe you are referring to that as an option..
I'm not sure, never been to that stream, but IMO if you are feeling strongly for a line and spend some time there (say two three years) you find even more interest and just carry on. In the end you are not disappointed. And if you ARE, then you selected something you were never enthusiastic about in first place! And that's why it's important to think before opting for a career. 
If you loose the guts AFTER qualifying completely then my advice is join the profession! Hopefully you won't vent your anger on patients. Seriously.
Maybe off topic, but many people around me complain how they never wanted to be in this or that field. I get so irked, then why DID you join this??
So you already started the course?
If you loose the guts AFTER qualifying completely then my advice is join the profession! Hopefully you won't vent your anger on patients. Seriously.
Maybe off topic, but many people around me complain how they never wanted to be in this or that field. I get so irked, then why DID you join this??
So you already started the course?@Renhard (3471)
• Jamaica
31 Dec 10
Ok I see why. But seriously look at me now thinking about being in such a career. What if I have the guts now to do it but after spending so many years studying and finally experience it what if I loose the guts? I am just wondering. Will all that years of studying go down the drain? Btw just to let you know, I hate teaching.
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@Renhard (3471)
• Jamaica
31 Dec 10
I really am interested in this career and I love helping people. I have not started the course yet but Right now I have doubt. I really want to become a neurosurgeon. But seriously the human brain is funny and I am wondering if my mind will change. I hope it doesn't. Just wondering. Remember I just say that presently I have no doubt at all.
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@maximax8 (31053)
• United Kingdom
31 Dec 10
I met up with a neurosurgeon at 36 weeks pregnancy. I had just found out I was expecting a baby boy with spina bifida and hydrocephalus. I had to have a discussion with him about what to expect in the way of surgery form baby son for when he would be born.
My disabled son was born three weeks later at home. Then he went by ambulance to a hospital. We had been born at 5 in the morning and that evening a neurosurgeon did surgery to close the hole in his back at a different hospital. Then he went back to the other hospital. Two weeks later he went back to the neurosurgeon to put a shunt in his head.
My disabled son is now three years old. He attends check up appointments at that hospital to see the neurosurgeon or one of his team. It sounds like a stressful job but it must be rewarding. I guess it is well paid. A job in the medical field would not suit me at all.
@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
30 Dec 10
renhard first thing is to get a lot of literature from schools of medicine and from your specific field too. Most will be only too happy to send you a ton of information also find any leads of the practice of neurosurgery on the net. I am way past working as I am retired .
but I know this field takes a lot of studying and also do you care
at all about the actual doing the surgeries, do you want to help
people. your young ideas of money money expensive cars do not do it
for me, if you had said I want to be able to help people like my friend
who cannot walk I would have said you have the right motives but just to rake in a lot of money, sounds like you have not got the foggiest idea of what a neurosurgeon actually does?There I am probably wrong as you sound extremely intelligent but also a bit naive.the medical field is wonderful if you really really are dedicated to helping others. I am sure we all want a good life but in the medical field I really feel a good doctor or nurse or even nurses aide must really love to help ill people to be really superb at their chosen field.
@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
30 Dec 10
sorry renhard I reread your discussion asd you have been interested in
helping people so forgive some of my remarks as I now understand much better. Medical field is a wonderful field if as you say you want to
help others. really great neurosurgeons I am sure are much needed
so am sure the field is wide open. like I said I believe medical collegts could send you some literature on neurosurgery too.
@Renhard (3471)
• Jamaica
30 Dec 10
I glad you reread. But guess what I am also concern that the years of studying is too long. What do you think of that. Would you study so long just to go in a career? Do you think it is worth it? And lastly why didn't you chose this career earlier in life?
@paula27661 (15811)
• Australia
3 Jan 11
I guess if that is where your passions lie you can certainly achieve your ambition to become a neurosurgeon. I would imagine that it will mean years of hard study but, as I said if that is what you want to do, there is no reason why you should not go for it. Personally I would make a terrible doctor let alone a surgeon of any kind because I am too sensitive with blood and the like and I tend to get to emotionally involved with people’s plights. We all have our ambitions and it is great to have specific goals. I am sure that becoming a surgeon would also be high paying too. Good luck with it.
@paula27661 (15811)
• Australia
3 Jan 11
No I don't think so, some people are just not cut out for medical work! (LOL)
@gunagohan (3414)
• India
31 Dec 10
If u want money, then it's your call u can surely take neurology...
Neuro consultants here charge more and u can see that there are many working in Information Technology field and they will get pain due to prolonged exposure to computer and they will come to Neuro consultant for this and u can earn..
Single CT brain scan costs more in my place..
A single laser surgery on brain costs more and u will earn more..
By doing this, u are helping others getting relieved from pain..I respect my Neuro Consultant very much as he is treating me to get relieved from my nerves pain..
Once i hit my head in door frame and i went to two consultants and the pain was not cured, later i went to the Neuro consultant and he gave physiotherapy treatment and it was cured..
U have to invest more to study neurology ...
@narnia007 (1050)
• India
31 Dec 10
To be a neurosurgeon,you must have loads of patience to study a long time and also have to be working so hard.As you mentioned,its pay is very good.If you are going to be well paid,you will surely be very busy doing many successful operations.Then in such a case,you will surely buy a laborgini,but will you have time to drive it???Many top surgeons earning tons and tons of money dont have time to enjoy life.See to it and decide...best wishes.
@Vaultar (95)
• Romania
30 Dec 10
You really seem to like neurosurgeons and if you really are as skilled as you are insinuating to be then hell , you should just go for it.
The years of studies might be long but should pass by pretty quick if you really like what you are studying (and you seem to like neurosurgery).
You have my recommendation , make me proud ! :D
PS The salary is never too high...
@Renhard (3471)
• Jamaica
30 Dec 10
LOL for the salary thing. Anyway now. Everybody I ask, that is SOME friends, say they wouldn't do it because they want to enjoy their life as soon as possible. They want to have kids and all those things from they are in their twenties. I wanted that too but with this career it seem I will have to wait until I am I'm my thirties before I can actually think about those things.
@Vaultar (95)
• Romania
30 Dec 10
You can build up a family any time you feel like it (that sounded so wrong...) so no need to rush but also you don't need to make up your mind right now , get off the chair and off to college you go , you have all the time in the world , keep thinking about it , if you really wanna do that over and over till you retire ( actually that's the same for every job ) and if you really like it.
@vicentebar (4)
• Mexico
30 Dec 10
well an advantage is that you will be a surgeon a disadvantage is that beeing a neurosurgeon will be dabgerous because the head and nerves are very delicated but if you are good surgeon you'll be fine.
@Renhard (3471)
• Jamaica
30 Dec 10
To qualify to be a neurosurgeon is hard and when u achieve this you MUST be able to work in your specified area. If you couldn't work you specified area means that you couldn't have qualified. So that doesn't seem like a disadvantage to me. Another thing is that a neurosurgeon also work on the back (just saying because not everyone knows that).
