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pasta_water1 said:
Unfortunately online I stupidly made a mistake by getting involved with an argument over CRNAs and how the education is not the same and said to the effect of how they were being used as a tool to cost corners on healthcare. I ended up deleting what I said because I was afraid after getting heated that things could be made to be taken out of context. I now realize that I need to be more considerate of my future colleagues and not pre judge them.

Fast forward now a couple of days and I got a ominous email from my Dean requesting a meeting. I'm afraid someone found out and reported this to my school and its going to go on my MSPE. Im absolutely freaking out right now
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1) it’s probably something else he wants to talk about

2) disagreeing about a controversial topic isn’t the same as unprofessionalism
 
This is why these conversations are best suited for SDN imo

OP, go in there apologetic even if you don’t agree. I know that it’s sucks but just don’t make it worse by getting defensive. Smile and nod

I agree with the above though. Probably not even related.
 
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pasta_water1 said:
Unfortunately online I stupidly made a mistake by getting involved with an argument over CRNAs and how the education is not the same and said to the effect of how they were being used as a tool to cost corners on healthcare. I ended up deleting what I said because I was afraid after getting heated that things could be made to be taken out of context. I now realize that I need to be more considerate of my future colleagues and not pre judge them.

Fast forward now a couple of days and I got a ominous email from my Dean requesting a meeting. I'm afraid someone found out and reported this to my school and its going to go on my MSPE. Im absolutely freaking out right now
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Unless you said something REALLY bad I doubt you'd get a book thrown at you hard enough to go on your MSPE. But you do need to be careful with social media, if your social media account is tied to you or your school/hospital and you say something they feel is a bad look, they can take that pretty seriously. Every contract I've signed since residency has a clause that says if you misbehave on social media and your account can be traced back to the hospital they can fire you. This might be more the issue than you not being in love with midlevels.
 
pasta_water1 said:
Unfortunately online I stupidly made a mistake by getting involved with an argument over CRNAs and how the education is not the same and said to the effect of how they were being used as a tool to cost corners on healthcare. I ended up deleting what I said because I was afraid after getting heated that things could be made to be taken out of context. I now realize that I need to be more considerate of my future colleagues and not pre judge them.

Fast forward now a couple of days and I got a ominous email from my Dean requesting a meeting. I'm afraid someone found out and reported this to my school and its going to go on my MSPE. Im absolutely freaking out right now
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I mean... be contrite about not exercising the best judgement in making those social media posts but having such an opinion doesn't make you unprofessional.

I would be shocked if a Dean went through the effort of documenting something like this in your MSPE. This isn't the type of thing that says you will have problems functioning as a medical professional.
 
HipiMochi said:
1) it’s probably something else he wants to talk about

2) disagreeing about a controversial topic isn’t the same as unprofessionalism
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In our era, disagreeing about many topics can label one unprofessional. I would be extra careful anything you say in public. 1000x more anything you put in writing!
 
acapnial said:
Unless you said something REALLY bad I doubt you'd get a book thrown at you hard enough to go on your MSPE. But you do need to be careful with social media, if your social media account is tied to you or your school/hospital and you say something they feel is a bad look, they can take that pretty seriously. Every contract I've signed since residency has a clause that says if you misbehave on social media and your account can be traced back to the hospital they can fire you. This might be more the issue than you not being in love with midlevels.
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NITRAS said:
Until you are a staff physician, just throw social media away.

It just isn’t worth it.
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im an attending psychiatrist and i still am scared with the whole social media thing. I prefer to not give disgruntled patients details about my life via public information, lol.

Also youll have views you disagree with or that you think are BS. All the time, still happens to me. In a war it doesnt matter who is right, it just matter who is left standing and no one gives you a medal for being right. And whats the likelihood you will change someones views via expressing your own? Same principle as why most people vote one way or another.
 
pasta_water1 said:
The worst I said was "in theory we should have anesthesiologists be doing all cases but we should be encouraging a flexner like report on CRNA schools and raising standards". I didn't resort to insults, in fact this same person made the argument that medical school was filled with elitists and racists.

I ultimately got lulled into the false sense of security bc this is on a facebook page that talks about controversial healthcare issues alot and that was probably the ultimate mistake. I fear that Im going to be taken out of context that I don't respect CRNAs which is absolutely not what I'm implying.
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That’s a pretty fair statement. I wouldn’t worry about that if this is the worst you said.
 
pasta_water1 said:
Unfortunately online I stupidly made a mistake by getting involved with an argument over CRNAs and how the education is not the same and said to the effect of how they were being used as a tool to cost corners on healthcare. I ended up deleting what I said because I was afraid after getting heated that things could be made to be taken out of context. I now realize that I need to be more considerate of my future colleagues and not pre judge them.

Fast forward now a couple of days and I got a ominous email from my Dean requesting a meeting. I'm afraid someone found out and reported this to my school and its going to go on my MSPE. Im absolutely freaking out right now
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"Do not take counsel of your fears"
Gen'l George S Patton
 
I learned long ago that arguing with people online is not worth it. People online get this impression that everything they type is a one up or take things way too personally, or have to 'win the back and forth'. Some people honestly troll or just act like general pitas just because it gets them off. Some people use it as a way to blow off steam I guess.

So much in current society you see people posting or expressing "Just be a good person". My advice is to apply that online. At least that's what I try to do.

I do it here. Way back I used to argue with the best of them on this forum. Now, when I'm about to post something I read over it before posting and ask myself three questions:
1. Is this helpful?
2. Is this educational in some way?
3. Will this post add something constructive or help someone reading it, whether the op or otherwise?

If I answer 'no' to all three of these, I generally delete what I typed, post nothing, and move on. It's not difficult.

Another thing I do on social media, is if I see something that is offensive to me or that really bothers me, I'll type out (but not post) a response to it. Sometimes really scathing. Walk away for a minute or two. Come back and delete what you typed and walk away again. Five minutes later reflect on it. By that time you won't care anymore, likely wonder why you even really cared to begin with, and you've avoided a potential obnoxious online back and forth. Don't feed the trolls.
 
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I also wouldn't worry too much if that's the worst of it. In my residency (med school was too long ago, residency is my better reference point), if you got called into the PD's office because someone complained about you, there were basically 3 ways it could go. A) Someone complained and the PD doesn't think it's a big deal, but because someone complained they have to address it by talking to you, B) Someone complained and the PD thinks what you did wasn't the right thing to do in that situation but as long as you understand that and won't do it again there's no big problem, or C) Someone complained and the PD thinks what you did was in bad judgement and is warning you if you dont fix the problem there will be punitive action. That doesn't sound like a C situation to me, but that said, the way to turn a B situation into a C is to be argumentative/defensive and give the impression you don't get it.
 
annoyedpsychiatrist said:
im an attending psychiatrist and i still am scared with the whole social media thing. I prefer to not give disgruntled patients details about my life via public information, lol.

Also youll have views you disagree with or that you think are BS. All the time, still happens to me. In a war it doesnt matter who is right, it just matter who is left standing and no one gives you a medal for being right. And whats the likelihood you will change someones views via expressing your own? Same principle as why most people vote one way or another.
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Its kinda hard to do when your information is this public. They can easily search you online and figure out where you live...
 
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