Reply #15: Radiology? [View All]

[tblue37]

That's a great specialty!

My girl is looking at a few different possibilities:

emergency pediatrics
trauma surgery
orthopedic surgery

Orthopedic surgery is very much a boy's club, though, and that is a bit of a problem for a young woman starting out in any field.

Her research proposal concerns the child welfare laws in Ireland. They were drastically revamped a few years ago. If you have read Angela's Ashes or any other book about how children fared in Ireland a few decades ago, you know child welfare was not in the forefront of policy.

But they have made so much progress in recent years that my daughter wants to study how they made such a rapid turnaround, and whether their success might serve as a mdoel for other countries. She plans to write a book about her research.

She loves to travel and learn about other cultures. She did two different study-abroads as an undergrad: she did a semester in London, taking humanities courses, and also one studying primate ecology in the Costa Rican rainforest. In fact, she just got back from a 2-week trip to Africa.

Her summer job last year was as a waitress in a pub in Dublin (or as she likes to say, as a "bar wench").

Although she was a biology/premed major and a math and chemistry minor as an undergrad, she is also very steeped in literature, philosophy, history, and other such subjects. (She is my daughter, after all.)