Can an attending from a different service affect your clinical grade?

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coralfangs

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I have not worked with this attending but he's been a frigging prick to me. I mean, he's one of the GAS guys and he comes to our service from time to time to get some procedures done. There is always ALWAYS something personal he finds to complain about me. Ie... that old band t-shirt I wore (just the bandname and their logo) (residents here wear t-shirts instead of top scrubs all the time during night shift), my messy hair (I just wore a hair thingy before a procedure), my posture (I was on my 26th hr there), etc
One time he tried to pimp me about some ANES stuff (I haven't gone through my surgical rotation yet). Of cuz, he said my ans was not professional because I used layman terms that the peds residents taught me.........

I am getting good feedbacks from the actual residents and attendings I'm working with but can this prick affect my grade in any way?
 
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Anesthesiologists' days are sometimes just so boring and unfulfilling that the only thing that brings them happiness is bullying the vulnerable (i.e. a third-year student who has everything to lose if they are made to look bad in front of the attendings and residents who DO grade them).

Anesthesia attendings, though sometimes unwelcome, just love to float on over to MS3's on their Surgery and OB rotations and rudely interrupt them and just start asking them medical (anesthesia) questions. One time, I got all of my questions wrong and so did my classmate, because we could not understand what the hell he was saying with his broken English.

The very next day, he tried to pull the same trick. The other student and I jumped into overdrive and started helping prep the patient for the procedure (Foley, armboards, bed moving, etc.) and completely ignored the jerk attending. That seemed to do the trick.
 
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