i saw this comment somewhere.
"Being an Intervebtional Gastro,We do So so much more than colonoscopies. With general training you do Upper GI endoscopes, push enteroscopies, and colonoscopies typically. That said, it’s within the procedures where you find the great variety in GI. You can have a full day of UGI endosxopies where no one is the same. You can perform balloon dilation for strictures, you can RFA Barrett’s away, you can snare a strange-looking gastric polyp, you can band esophageal varices — and that’s only a small selection of what you can do on an upper.
And then if you take the extra year for advanced training, you can add ERCP and EUS to your repertoire! Not to mention the growing number of endoscopic bariatric procedures!
and Cardiology also has numerous procedures and still evolving day by day .
While I’m extremely biased, GI is so freaking cool. It definitely gives me the thrill of using my hands to treat patients while not having the grueling hours of surgery.Less hectic residency and stress and litigations and learning curve and ease of own setup .and comparotively good work life balanace than surgical superspecialities ."