Are You Really That Arrogant?

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jetproppilot

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Dude named

D712

got

DISSED

last week

for

no reason.

See, there was this thread

Switch Into Anesthesiology Residency

originated by a dude who thought he wanted to be a

radiologist.

Dude had endured a surgery internship.

Inquired about applying for anesthesia.

Looking for guidance.

D712 essentially said

"contact alotta anesthesiology

PROGRAM DIRECTORS."


Which was the right answer for this wandering dude's plight.

Yet

D712

was called out since he hasn't done a residency yet.

Hasn't done med school yet.

BUT DUDE STILL PROVIDED THE

RIGHT

ANSWER


with that fact, the fact that he provided the

RIGHT ANSWER

was still

IGNORED

by this board as a whole.

WHY?

Are we as physicians SO arrogant as to not be able to take advice from someone

OUTSIDE OUR CLAN?


Lemme break this down for ya'll.

MEDICINE IS A BUSINESS

that operates not unlike other non-medical businesses.

Some questions about how to react to certain situations

DON'T NEED A DOCTOR AND, IN FACT,

may be better directed by a non-physician...i.e

BUSINESS....MONEY...

doctors are

NOTORIOUS FOR OVERSTEPPING BOUNDARIES

and losing

money...relationships...businesses...

because they chose to not listen to

SOMEONE ELSE.

Back to

D712,

dude is

VERY ACCOMPLISHED

in a non medical field.

Dude

has smoked the pre med accomplishments. He's published. He's active in the medical environment.

He's on his way to our medical field and

WILL ARRIVE.

But just for s h i ts and giggles, lets pretend D712

HAD NO INTEREST IN MEDICINE.

ARE WE SOOOOOOO ARROGANT AS DOCTORS THAT WE SHOUT OUT AGAINST SOMEONE ACCOMPLISHED IN ANOTHER FIELD TRYING TO GUIDE AN INDIVIDUAL IN OUR FIELD, MEDICINE, TO DO THE RIGHT THING IN A "BUSINESS" SITUATION?

Isn't trying to change residency aspirations

BUSINESS?

D712 is an accomplished Hollywood screenwriter. Dude texted me yesterday that he wrote for 4 hours and made X dollars. "X" is a figure you wouldn't believe, so I'll leave it out.

You don't get the opportunity to write scripts for X dollars unless you are

GIFTED.

And you don't arrive at the proverbial

Top Hollywood Screenwrite Ladder

without

PROWESS. Business sense. Ability to relate to others. Ability to handle situations.

Turns out D712 has innate ability to

multitask

and has this burning thing inside of him that he wants to be a doctor. Actually he wants to be an

anesthesiologist.

So his spare time in between the lucrative screenwrites he composes has been spent at the

anesthesiology department

for the better of two years now

soaking up knowledge.

About our profession.

As an aside,

how many hospitals recruit for specific problems

"MEDICAL CONSULTANTS?"


Are these "medical consultants" who earn six figures for specific situational problems...are they

ALL DOCTORS?

Nope.

Yet they often

provide salient knowledge.

YOU DUDES SPAT ON D712 FOR OFFERING ADVICE AS A PREMED TO A RESIDENT.

I'm not happy about that.

Hoping, going forward,

maybe we as doctors realize we can learn

ALOT

from

others.
 
Jet,

I don't know what thread you are referring to, but I want to give D712 some advice.

Keep writing scripts. That sounds like an incredible gig.

Also, try really hard to get with Salma Hayek.
 
It has been my experience that it is not enough to be right in medicine; you have to know WHEN to be right. For instance, on rounds, if the attending is pimping the upper level or intern, and the MS3 immediately starts bouncing up and down with his hand raised shouting "ooh! ooh! I know!" and blurts the answer out, that is poor form (and major D-bag points).

Everybody's personality is different, and the less you can clash with people, the higher your chances of making it to the goal line (finishing residency) in one piece. At least, that's my perspective.
 
Jet, that **** happens over and over and over and over on these forums. Almost any post by a premed will receive a response somewhere in the thread mocking said premed for being an idiot and unable to give advice because they aren't a doctor, the most recent example of this occurred in the non-trad forum, which is laughable because it's supposed to be one of the pre-med zones....

Im glad you made this thread, because the douche-baggery is getting lame.
 
I like D712 but didn't read the thread Jet is referring to. However, I would think D712 is a big boy and has learned already that people can hurt each other verbally almost as bad as physically( or worse). Hope he didn't take the offense to deep to his heart and won't act the same way by the time when he will be able to add those two dream letters after his name.
 
Didn't read the thread being referred to, but arrogance abounds in the medical profession. Just have to laugh at those pompous a**holes, d712.
 
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