“Number of medical students pursuing surgery specialty drops by half”

That was the headline in a September 10 Becker’s ACS Review article. The first sentence of the piece was more specific, “Only 4 percent of medical students surveyed in 2018 said their chosen medical specialty is general surgery, compared with 8 percent in 2016, according to Medscape's Medical Student Life & Education Report 2018.”

This caused some consternation among general surgeons on Twitter. I tweeted, “Interesting. Lifestyle is finally catching up to us. I think it will get worse.”