<p>What kind of career in medicine can I pursue if I don't like seeing mangled intestines or nicked eyeballs?</p>
<p>I have the same problem. If I make it to med school, I hope I just.. get used to it. <_<</p>
<p>you can go into anesthisology</p>
<p>Peds or Radiology</p>
<p>I think there needs to be some fleshing out (pardon the pun) in terms of what you mean by "gore".</p>
<p>If you want to become a doctor without ever seeing organs or a dead body, that's going to be harder to do. You have to go through the anatomy lab, you have to spend time as a third year on a surgery rotation. And to be honest...I thought the "messiest" service of all was Labor & Delivery while on OB/GYN. Birthin' babies is not a tidy process. If you simply don't like blood, that's a slightly different situation.</p>
<p>That said, when the organs are intact, it's a much different situation than your typical slasher movie. Dissecting an eye ball in the anatomy lab when the blood had been drained from the body certainly lacks the punch that movie directors are going for.</p>
<p>Certainly once you've weathered things like anatomy lab and surgery, you can go into any number of specialties where there's little "gore". Neurology, Physical Medicine and Rehab, PSYCHIATRY, Radiology, Clinical Pathology, and a number of the peds or internal medicine subspecialties (like rheumatology, infectious disease, pulmonology, medical genetics, allergy/immunology, endocrinology, and nephrology) all have minimal "gore" exposure.</p>
<p>Agree with Bigredmed that you're going to encounter gore (not the former VP) at some point during your medical training. However, for a relatively gore-free life's work, you may want to consider some kind of specialized research, where you can work in a lab, although microbe intestines can be upsetting. :-) Seriously, research may be your ticket.</p>