When I was in Medical School during a third year rotation, a male attending was examining an attractive female patient. This attending had a thing for photographing his patients in the nude. Then hed cut the pictures up, put all the heads on different bodies, and post them in his office! He instructed me to talk to the woman and convince her that having her picture taken is necessary to monitor her progress. When I asked if this was true, the attending replied, Hell, no! I just want to see if she shaves her c&*t!. When I refused his order, he told me, OK, but youll never match in anything next year!. His words were truly prophetic. I sent out over two hundred applications to Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, and Pediatrics programs, never receiving so much as a reply from any of them.
When I related my problem to the Dean of Student Affairs at my school, the only thing she had to say was, If an attending tells you he wants to f#@k you, your brother and your sister while your parents watch, you should reply, Where do you want me to make the hotel reservations and what do you want room service to bring for breakfast the next morning?
Medical students are utterly at the mercy of school faculty. While a student is hardly ever expelled outright, the same result can be achieved by making it impossible for the student to find postgraduate training. Either way, the result is the same. Youve wasted your time and money for no real objective. Any prospective medical student needs to consider if he or she has the stomach to eat s#(t if forced to do so by attendings on clinical rotations. I have an MD, from a mid-ranked US medical school, but my career as a physician ended before it began.
Frankly, I don't know why ANYONE smart and/or sane enough to get into medical school would willingly subject himself or herself to such abuse!
