Depends where you work - I work at St Joe’s in Stockton, and it’s not unusual to incubate 5 or 6 patients in a shift, though one or two is more usual. Get in touch if you’re looking to work in a super underserved community, with ridiculously high acuity!

That said, most ED’s are not like that, and an awful lot of emergency medicine is ‘just’ careful assessment and reassurance, so I’d agree that if you don’t like the process of seeing and helping high and low acuity patients, it’s a bad career choice.

If anyone wants to chat about the pro’s and con’s of EM and career changing, happy to chat, contact info in profile

This fellow went to a 3 year med school that doesn’t care too much about your prerequisites as long as you have a degree. It’s 3 because they don’t really do summers off.

Although he did a full 5yr EM residency, in Canada you can work EM with a 2 year FP residency and another year as an FP specializing in EM.

Sooo, 10 at the most, but could be done in 6.

It's still 3 years of zero pay and $40k+ in tuition and 3+ years of shit pay.

Which medical school is that? Caribbean one?

McMaster University, 45 minutes from Toronto.