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I'm 31. Working as a MRI supervisor in a large hospital. I've been in the medical field for 7 years, the longer I'm in it, the more I can't stand it. I have 54 people who I supervise. Most of them are self righteous, "powerful", independent women. I will spare you the details..

I'm really looking to get out and start new. I also have a family so I have to consider that. I've thought of learning a trade. Working for myself.. sure just doing what? What do the good citizens of poal do for a living? What do you recommend?

I'm 31. Working as a MRI supervisor in a large hospital. I've been in the medical field for 7 years, the longer I'm in it, the more I can't stand it. I have 54 people who I supervise. Most of them are self righteous, "powerful", independent women. I will spare you the details.. I'm really looking to get out and start new. I also have a family so I have to consider that. I've thought of learning a trade. Working for myself.. sure just doing what? What do the good citizens of poal do for a living? What do you recommend?

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Mainly do user research and testing with some design stuff. I tackle the nightmare that is ehr/emr integration and preventing clinician burnout. Health tech is great but has two caveats:

  1. Most health tech companies are usually startups of some sort. This means you might not have all the resources you expect or have to work quicker than you're used to.

  2. If you don't have an MD, make sure someone in the company does. Small health tech companies run on reputation, and there are a lot of tech bros (I. E. Ex-google) that think they can solve medicine with an outside perspective.

Ex - Google means shit compared to an MD (or at least MPH). Hospitals want to know you speak their language and can trust you with data.

If you're still interested, I know there was a push a while back for data science startups to work with medical imaging to do automatic tumor recognition in them. Search for vedadata (i think) for more info.