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Hey guys I have to get your opinion on this. It seems like every time we have a patient come in with some form of facial lac, or fracture, or nose bleed...whatever we are calling a consultant. ENT, Plastics, ect....
I feel like I'm not doing anything. When I was a third and 4th year med student at St. barnabas in the Bronx, I would repair huge facial lacs with subcutaneous sutures myself and think nothing of it. We would splint fractures and send them to ortho clinic...no big deal. Anterior nasal packing...done.
Here, all of the attendings keep saying that patients will sue if they don't like the job we do, so since we're at a university hospital we call the specialist. That's Bull$hit. I went into emergency medicine because I like to do these things....not stay on the phone and watch someone else do my procedure.
Does this happen anywhere else?? What's the deal. My fear is that I will finish residency, go off into a community hospital to work and not know how to do anything but call subspecialists.
Please let me know how this is handled at other places. It's killing me.
DOnut
I feel like I'm not doing anything. When I was a third and 4th year med student at St. barnabas in the Bronx, I would repair huge facial lacs with subcutaneous sutures myself and think nothing of it. We would splint fractures and send them to ortho clinic...no big deal. Anterior nasal packing...done.
Here, all of the attendings keep saying that patients will sue if they don't like the job we do, so since we're at a university hospital we call the specialist. That's Bull$hit. I went into emergency medicine because I like to do these things....not stay on the phone and watch someone else do my procedure.
Does this happen anywhere else?? What's the deal. My fear is that I will finish residency, go off into a community hospital to work and not know how to do anything but call subspecialists.
Please let me know how this is handled at other places. It's killing me.
DOnut
