Is ortho more competitive than neurosurgery?

regardless of the above answers, you for sure work with nicer people with more down to earth egos (not saying there aren't some jerk orthopods, but compared to most of the neurosurgeons I have ever known, there is no comparison)

totally agree


plus
- many patients die and personally I could not handle it, basically you just tell them about size of the tumor and approximate date of the death
- I think neurosurgeons always experience some kind of guilt (they cut neurones and destroy personalities), IMO that is why cover-page of the Neurosurgery magazine always has picture of classic, sophisticated paintings (defence mechanism I think - to cover still barbarian nature of their work )

- neurosurgeons live in hospitals not with their families

but at the same time they saved my father (huge meningeoma- 9 hours surgery - 11 years ago)

so I think it is not about scores, earning or competitiveness

it is about VOCATION and LOVE for that specialty