Does your GPA reflect anything about your ability ?

[classof2011]

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Eh, patients are fully capable of being idiots. I saw a middle-aged woman argue with an orthopedic surgeon and an anesthesiologist that she should be able to have her operation, even though she had had breakfast, this being after she told her husband to shut up. She argued, whined, and when they didn't budge, she cried. Nothing.

 

[Mr. Freeze]

**no need to keep post*

That'd make a great sig line for you...

 

[8744]

Im so glad everyone decided to be nut-hangers for Panda.....And also, how stupid of me to argue with someone with such credentials.....EM physicians dont get that much time with patients anyway!, Its understandable why he thinks the way he does...oops my bad, forgive me😀

I wonder how many cardiologists who spends long periods of time doing pricedures, think like that🙄

You know, we actually spend more time with our patients than most doctors, just not all at once. At any given time I have between six and eight patients "waiting around" for things to happen. (Labs, images, etc.) Like a good doctor I "round" on my patients periodically to see how they're doing. If I have the time I might chat with them a little or talk with new family members who have just arrived. At our hospital, people can be in the department (and I mean not in the waiting room) for hours waiting for results or for a bed if they are admitted. You can really get to know people under those circumstances. It is sometimes really busy but not all the time.

The advantage of Emergency Medicine is not that you don't spend time with your patients but that you don't have to manage all of their incredibly boring chronic medical problems as you either admit them or discharge them and hopefully never see them again (although we do have our regulars). Therefore I don't ypically have to review a huge chart and write massive, largely redundant notes, something Ihate doing.

 

[Me an MD??]

What is a "great doctor"?

I think grades are a predictor of your determination ALONG with your intelligence. If you are smart and dedicated, you can get top grades. That doesn't mean your nice and compassionate but what makes a "great doctor", intelligence? compassion? etc...

If you ask me personally what makes a great doctor...
Supreme Intelligence and No Laziness (Straight A's), Compassion (Makes Patients feel good emotionally AND physically), Great with their time (ie. Doesn't have ANY problems balancing home life, social life, and career life.. goes on weekly dinner dates with wife, coaches son's soccer team, enjoys golfing with friends, etc..).. I could go on.. Unfortunately, only 1% of people are even near great doctors in my eyes.. The great surgeon who is number 1.. spends about 2-3 hrs a week with his son (pitiful token).. the med student who can't balance school and complains about his gf being "needy".. etc..

All signs of non-greatness..

So.. if your striving to be great and are lacking in anything, you are not great..

I've taken some steps to ensure I'm better (not great).. Freeing myself of a TV creates TONS of free-time to dedicate yourself to studying, spending time with loved ones, family, friends, traveling, partying, anything you can think of that is better than spending 14 hrs a week on your ass..

Being a great doctor and being a great father or boyfriend are two differnet things. I dont see how you can include those in a physicians assessment. Whether they spend time with their son has no bearing on whether they are sucessful in the hospital. It only makes them a sub par father.

 

[8744]

What is a "great doctor"?

I think grades are a predictor of your determination ALONG with your intelligence. If you are smart and dedicated, you can get top grades. That doesn't mean your nice and compassionate but what makes a "great doctor", intelligence? compassion? etc...

If you ask me personally what makes a great doctor...
Supreme Intelligence and No Laziness (Straight A's), Compassion (Makes Patients feel good emotionally AND physically), Great with their time (ie. Doesn't have ANY problems balancing home life, social life, and career life.. goes on weekly dinner dates with wife, coaches son's soccer team, enjoys golfing with friends, etc..).. I could go on.. Unfortunately, only 1% of people are even near great doctors in my eyes.. The great surgeon who is number 1.. spends about 2-3 hrs a week with his son (pitiful token).. the med student who can't balance school and complains about his gf being "needy".. etc..

All signs of non-greatness..

So.. if your striving to be great and are lacking in anything, you are not great..

I've taken some steps to ensure I'm better (not great).. Freeing myself of a TV creates TONS of free-time to dedicate yourself to studying, spending time with loved ones, family, friends, traveling, partying, anything you can think of that is better than spending 14 hrs a week on your ass..

I am so hosed.

Oh well. I'll just muddle along. I so do not strive to be great. I kind of strive for my days off.