Hi all - I'm a CA-2 anesthesiology resident and I'm becoming more and more frustrated by my daily work... I'm wondering if anyone can tell me how much of my frustrations are institution/residency specific, and how much of this all is part of the downfall of our profession?
I'm tired of scrub techs, OR techs, and OR nurses talking down to me and not helping me in any way whatsoever. Case in point, I have a morbidly obese patient who needs a bit of ramp enhancement and I ask the OR nurse for more blankets to ramp the patient - the nurse refuses to get them, telling me what I can get them myself. Or I come into the OR with an 80 yr old half dead patient and the OR staff is blasting Ke$sha - then they refuse to turn it off when I tell them that we're in the room and to turn of the music / be profesional.
I'm also sick of frequenstly having to turn over my own room - wiping down my machine, making the bed, restocking my omnicell, and restocking my anesthesia supplies from the workroom (syringes, ET tubes, alaris pumps, etc). Don't we have techs for this kind of thing?
I also get so frustrated that CRNAs on 12 hour shifts need to "take a break" and I get called on my 20th hour of work to do an absurd lap chole so that the CRNA isn't overworked. Is it normal for residents to fluff CRNAs and keep them comfortable and happy?
It seems like the giant losers in the academic workflow are anesthesiology residents - CRNAs, techs, and even the janitors seem to be treated better. To what degree is this all simply the plight of physician anesthesiologists these days, and how much of this is program malignancy or residency frustration?
I'm tired of scrub techs, OR techs, and OR nurses talking down to me and not helping me in any way whatsoever. Case in point, I have a morbidly obese patient who needs a bit of ramp enhancement and I ask the OR nurse for more blankets to ramp the patient - the nurse refuses to get them, telling me what I can get them myself. Or I come into the OR with an 80 yr old half dead patient and the OR staff is blasting Ke$sha - then they refuse to turn it off when I tell them that we're in the room and to turn of the music / be profesional.
I'm also sick of frequenstly having to turn over my own room - wiping down my machine, making the bed, restocking my omnicell, and restocking my anesthesia supplies from the workroom (syringes, ET tubes, alaris pumps, etc). Don't we have techs for this kind of thing?
I also get so frustrated that CRNAs on 12 hour shifts need to "take a break" and I get called on my 20th hour of work to do an absurd lap chole so that the CRNA isn't overworked. Is it normal for residents to fluff CRNAs and keep them comfortable and happy?
It seems like the giant losers in the academic workflow are anesthesiology residents - CRNAs, techs, and even the janitors seem to be treated better. To what degree is this all simply the plight of physician anesthesiologists these days, and how much of this is program malignancy or residency frustration?