The Goo Tolerance Index: a foolproof method for choosing a medical specialty

Julie Curwin

doi:10.1503/cmaj.071435

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Goo-ing further
Avis R. Picton

Posted on: 06 December 2007

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Goo-ing further
Avis R. Picton
I believe Dr. Julie Curwin is onto something with the Goo Tolerance Index method, and not just as regards choosing medical specialties. However, this system needs further tweaking before broadening its application to include other medicine-affiliated professions.
I am a moderate-goo specialist myself (family medicine), but as a medical laboratory technologist in a previous life, I handled with equanimity not o...
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I believe Dr. Julie Curwin is onto something with the Goo Tolerance Index method, and not just as regards choosing medical specialties. However, this system needs further tweaking before broadening its application to include other medicine-affiliated professions.
I am a moderate-goo specialist myself (family medicine), but as a medical laboratory technologist in a previous life, I handled with equanimity not only paint cans full of week-old feces and gallon jugs of urine, but -- at a level of goo few physicians ever experience -- sinkfuls of autoclaved cultures. Yet I was undone by the routine sputum specimen and its runny cousin, saliva. Consequently, I later rejected a career in dentistry as far too goo-intensive, to the eternal detriment of my sleep and RRSP.
To improve the accuracy of the GTI, I would propose the GSTI (Goo- Specific Tolerance Index) in its place. In my case, this would have quickly ruled out respirology and pediatrics as well.
Avis Picton MD CCFP
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