are medical students inherently very judgemental?

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Would you agree with the idea that medical students tend to be very judgemental?

We are taught to critically analyze a patient's health history and this skill tends to transfer over to critically critiquing each other, lecturers or anyone that we happen to run across.
 
I stereotype people all the time... You gotta have something to go when you first walk in a patient's room... usually I'm right, the key is being able to accept it when you are wrong and accept someone for who they really are.

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The people i have encountered in medicine are much more judgmental than non-medical people.

The job requires it for effective patient care to extent...it's just unfortunate when it spills into other areas of people's lives.
 
link2swim06 said:
The people i have encountered in medicine are much more judgmental than non-medical people.

The job requires it for effective patient care to extent...it's just unfortunate when it spills into other areas of people's lives.
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I remember there was a study that looked at why lawyers tend to be more unsatisfied with their lives than people of other professions in general. The thinking was that lawyers are trained to find errors in documents like needles in a haystack. Their skill in sensing what's "wrong" is honed so well that it bleeds into life outside of work.
 
punkedoutriffs said:
I remember there was a study that looked at why lawyers tend to be more unsatisfied with their lives than people of other professions in general. The thinking was that lawyers are trained to find errors in documents like needles in a haystack. Their skill in sensing what's "wrong" is honed so well that it bleeds into life outside of work.
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Wow, so very interesting!
 
Med students are generally very whiny and judgmental and think things should just be handed to them.In my experience most med students think the world revolves around them. They are very selfish and often think they are better than others. Thing is that they are usually good at hiding these feelings but it comes out eventually.
 
oncall77 said:
Med students are generally very whiny and judgmental and think things should just be handed to them.In my experience most med students think the world revolves around them. They are very selfish and often think they are better than others. Thing is that they are usually good at hiding these feelings but it comes out eventually.
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Thank you.
 
Everyone is judgmental. Everyone has their biases. You can not simply train yourself not to have them. They are just part of being human. What you need to learn to do it to recognize your bias and judgments and push them aside as much as possible so it doesn't interfere with giving your patients the best care.
 
Oo Cipher oO said:
Everyone is judgmental. Everyone has their biases. You can not simply train yourself not to have them. They are just part of being human. What you need to learn to do it to recognize your bias and judgments and push them aside as much as possible so it doesn't interfere with giving your patients the best care.
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yeah but the thing is med students will literally whine about pretty much everything. They whine about a lecture months after it happened. They whine about a resident who is very busy not taking an hour to teach them. They whine about grades. Hell students in my class where whining about going to graduation.... There is a difference between inherent biases and just being a whiny brat which many many med students are (not all, but a lot). Granted this is also just my experience with my classmates but it probably isn't that much different from school to school.
 
oncall77 said:
yeah but the thing is med students will literally whine about pretty much everything. They whine about a lecture months after it happened. They whine about a resident who is very busy not taking an hour to teach them. They whine about grades. Hell students in my class where whining about going to graduation.... There is a difference between inherent biases and just being a whiny brat which many many med students are (not all, but a lot). Granted this is also just my experience with my classmates but it probably isn't that much different from school to school.
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and here we get the "whiny brat" whining about whiners >.>
 
oncall77 said:
yeah but the thing is med students will literally whine about pretty much everything. They whine about a lecture months after it happened. They whine about a resident who is very busy not taking an hour to teach them. They whine about grades. Hell students in my class where whining about going to graduation.... There is a difference between inherent biases and just being a whiny brat which many many med students are (not all, but a lot). Granted this is also just my experience with my classmates but it probably isn't that much different from school to school.
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medicine is full of betas and women

betas = whiners
women = whiners

what else is there to say?
 
oncall77 said:
Med students are generally very whiny and judgmental and think things should just be handed to them.In my experience most med students think the world revolves around them. They are very selfish and often think they are better than others. Thing is that they are usually good at hiding these feelings but it comes out eventually.
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How old are you?

Maybe you could get together w roadlesstraveled.

There would be flutes playing and trombones and flowers and garlands of fresh herbs and you would dance till the sun rises and then your children would form a family band and tour the countryside and medical students won't be invited.
 
No. I think you've got some people who are judgmental and don't know where to focus that ability. Also I see some people posting that our training to look at things with a critical eye causes us to make judgments. I don't think so. Ambitious, obsessive, sure. More judgmental than the general population? Nah. If anything my training is causing me to be even more patient with my analysis of things and others. I see a disease and I no longer "feel" repulsion or have a reaction - I understand it has a source and there are mechanisms which cause cascades of reactions.
If you finish medical school and your mind isn't broader, wiser...then you were congenitally destined for stupidity. 🙂
 
Anastomoses said:
No. I think you've got some people who are judgmental and don't know where to focus that ability. Also I see some people posting that our training to look at things with a critical eye causes us to make judgments. I don't think so. Ambitious, obsessive, sure. More judgmental than the general population? Nah. If anything my training is causing me to be even more patient with my analysis of things and others. I see a disease and I no longer "feel" repulsion or have a reaction - I understand it has a source and there are mechanisms which cause cascades of reactions.
If you finish medical school and your mind isn't broader, wiser...then you were congenitally destined for stupidity. 🙂
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I really, really like this response. 👍
 
Some people watch too much House M.D.
 
Slowpoke said:
Would you agree with the idea that medical students tend to be very judgemental?

We are taught to critically analyze a patient's health history and this skill tends to transfer over to critically critiquing each other, lecturers or anyone that we happen to run across.
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No. I'm judging you right now for starting this thread.
 
Slowpoke said:
Would you agree with the idea that medical students tend to be very judgemental?

We are taught to critically analyze a patient's health history and this skill tends to transfer over to critically critiquing each other, lecturers or anyone that we happen to run across.
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No, I think you must draw the line between work and play. Whatever happens during work, it stays there.
 
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