{"id":1351,"date":"2011-08-22T15:17:29","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T20:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mindonmed.com\/?p=1351"},"modified":"2011-09-16T14:00:52","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T19:00:52","slug":"specialty-choice-mommd-cross-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/2011\/08\/specialty-choice-mommd-cross-post.html","title":{"rendered":"Specialty Choice &#8211; MomMD Cross Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.mommd.com\/blogs\/shiftchange\/9\/');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.mommd.com\/blogs\/shiftchange\/9\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1368\" style=\"margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 14px;\" title=\"Cross Post\" src=\"https:\/\/mindonmed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/CrossPost.jpg\" alt=\"Shift Change on MomMD\" width=\"179\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a>A few weeks back I <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.twitter.com\/#!\/daniellenjones');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/#!\/daniellenjones\" target=\"_blank\">tweeted<\/a> something to the effect of &#8220;I&#8217;m SO excited for my Ob\/Gyn rotation, but terrified I&#8217;m going to fall in love with it. I don&#8217;t want to love Ob\/Gyn!&#8221; My tweet referenced the underlying fear I harbor of loving a specialty that is demanding or lacks family friendliness. One of the first responses I received was along the lines of &#8220;Being miserable every single day at work is not worth choosing a specialty based only on lifestyle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The fact of the matter is &#8211; <em>Ob\/Gyn is tough<\/em>. The residency is surgical, the hours are long and the lifestyle is suboptimal for people wanting to spend time with their families on a regular basis&#8230;babies don&#8217;t just decide they will grace us with their presence between the hours of 9am and 4pm and in the absence of your kid&#8217;s T-ball game or theater performance.<\/p>\n<p>But&#8230;the rewards are <em>huge<\/em>. You get the opportunity to &#8230; <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.mommd.com\/blogs\/shiftchange\/9\/');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.mommd.com\/blogs\/shiftchange\/9\/\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK TO KEEP READING AT MOMMD.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks back I tweeted something to the effect of &#8220;I&#8217;m SO excited for my Ob\/Gyn rotation, but terrified I&#8217;m going to fall in love with it. I don&#8217;t want to love Ob\/Gyn!&#8221; My tweet referenced the underlying fear I harbor of loving a specialty that is demanding or lacks family friendliness. One of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37,38],"tags":[195,202,205,526,527,532,206,204,201,203,193,194],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/CrossPost.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1351"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1723,"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions\/1723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}