If I were a pre-med student I would set my sights on dermatology. Between the sun-tan booths and the present tattoo fad, by the time you graduate you will have a huge potential patient load.
Almost every generation has to have some visible characteristic to set it apart from its parents, whether its flapper skirts or spiked hair or whatever. But this is the first time that act of independence was a permanent alteration. And since no kid wants to imitate its parents, in a few years those hip tattoos will rejected as “something my parents used to do”, and all those people who desperately try to appear cool will be stuck with them. When celebrities like Janeane Garofalo and her Yakuza initiate imitation look realize it’s no longer cool, when employers tell their workers their tattoos are off-putting to potential customers, etc. you will see them scrambling to find some way to remove these former symbols of being “with it”.
Go with dermatology, young med student. Your fortune will be made...
“Go with dermatology, young med student. Your fortune will be made...”
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My brother, one of twins, is a dermatologist.
It is considered to be a great specialty, as your patients
never get well, or die.