During clinical rotation..can reject to perform surgeries or touch blood?

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I agree. That is why I am not going to get interested in Emergency Medicine even though I know that there is no other job on Earth I would enjoy more. Path is my path.
 
Originally posted by md03
This individual requested (and got) off friday sundown to sat sundown for the entire rotation, regardless of when the rest of the team had to show up. Bacially, the person was told, sure work it out with the other students. So that left us stuck..we couldn't really say "no, that's not fair" lest we look like whiners. We had to admit more patients when this person wasn't there, and we had to cover this indivduals pts as well. Furthermore, this individual "made up" the call time by coming for call with another team (on a procedure heavy rotation) thus decreasing the number of procedures available for those students. (However, we got more when he was gone)

No one was happy with the situtation (except the Jewish student) but none of us felt free to complain. If you must adhere to strict religous guidelines regarding scheduling, you need to be very careful choosing a specialty.


I have a huge problem with this situation and can honestly say that there is no way that I would not have complained about this situation (regardless of whether or not I would have been called a whiner) and also no way that I would give up my friday/saturday for this reason. Everyone enjoys having weekend time off, it is traditionally time spent with family and my family is important to me as your religion is to you.
 
As a vampire, I take offense to all this blood criticism. I like blood. It is essential to life (mine). This pish posh about blood scaring you and being religious, please. Give it a rest. Throughout history religion has gradually shifted from recognizing and serving God, to being used as a tool for murder, power, money, robbery, politics, sex, escaping responsibility and lots of other selfish reasons. Take it from me, I am 500 years old. When you are serving patients, you do what is best for them, not what is best for your beliefs. There are many emergency situations in life that don't allow for religious and other considerations. You have one minute or less to save a life. Just last week I had a patient that suddenly needed an immediate blood transfusion and I had to fly to the blood bank and get O neg blood. Now, I couldn't get the blood to the patient on time (I got a little hungry on my way back from the blood bank) and unfortunately the patient died. But my point is that had I been afraid of blood, that patient would have died. If you're going to whine about blood staining your new scrubs, you are what I call bloodpussy. Do us all a favor, keep your religious and other personal preferences at home, and show up to work as a doctor, not Jesus or Mohammad, or whoever the Jews like (Prophet Dollar). I am so angry, my fangs are growing out. Excuse me, I must pay a visit to the blood bank.
 
Originally posted by goooooober
As a vampire, I take offense to all this blood criticism. I like blood. It is essential to life (mine). This pish posh about blood scaring you and being religious, please. Give it a rest. Throughout history religion has gradually shifted from recognizing and serving God, to being used as a tool for murder, power, money, robbery, politics, sex, escaping responsibility and lots of other selfish reasons. Take it from me, I am 500 years old. When you are serving patients, you do what is best for them, not what is best for your beliefs. There are many emergency situations in life that don't allow for religious and other considerations. You have one minute or less to save a life. Just last week I had a patient that suddenly needed an immediate blood transfusion and I had to fly to the blood bank and get O neg blood. Now, I couldn't get the blood to the patient on time (I got a little hungry on my way back from the blood bank) and unfortunately the patient died. But my point is that had I been afraid of blood, that patient would have died. If you're going to whine about blood staining your new scrubs, you are what I call bloodpussy. Do us all a favor, keep your religious and other personal preferences at home, and show up to work as a doctor, not Jesus or Mohammad, or whoever the Jews like (Prophet Dollar). I am so angry, my fangs are growing out. Excuse me, I must pay a visit to the blood bank.

So you weren't paying attention the first 450 years? Religion has always been used as a tool for those things... case in point the Crusades.
 
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