"Are you going to stay in the emergency room?"

An interesting observation and perhaps this reflects on the general public's knowledge of what exactly emergency medicine is: even after 4 years of being a doc in the ED, family members and friends continue to ask me... "Are you going to stay in the Emergency Room or will you specialize?" "Are you going to open your own practice?" To which I pleasantly offer my canned response of something like this: "Emergency medicine is my career. It is it's own specialty and my residency training is... "Are you going to stay in the emergency room?"
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