East Coast medical personalities vs Rest of US?

[UT_mikie]

I saw this interesting comment from a NYT's poster today.
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"I attended medical school on the east coast and completed my training in Arizona. The disparity in the medical culture between east and west in my experience was enormous.

I found the clinical physicians on the east coast to be, with some exceptions, egotistical a%%holes with the full support of the hospital administration. My experience in the west has been the polar opposite.

Looking back now, most of these guys were clowns and their arrogance breeds physicians who think this is the way physicians should act.

Sorry to let the cat out of the bag, but taking out a gall bladder is about as difficult as changing the oil in your car. Sadly, many of these folks don't know how to do either."

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Obviously this guy is disgruntled but do you guys think there is any truth to the east coast med culture being more abusive than the rest of the US?

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[Law2Doc]

Obviously this guy is disgruntled but do you guys think there is any truth to the east coast med culture being more abusive than the rest of the US?

No. This guy is disgruntled. He had a bad experience and so is extrapolating it to an entire coast. To buy into that one iota would be *****ic. He may have had a bad experience with a single person, a couple of people, or it could just be that he himself was the problem. Nothing in your post gives us much evidence as to which, but there is certainly no logic in drawing any broader conclusions.

 

[PeepshowJohnny]

I saw this thread title and the image of a stereotypical New York wiseguy wanna-be as my attending.

"Ey! Can't ya see I'm examinin' the patient 'ere? Fuggedaboutit!"

 

[BogglestheMind]

I saw this interesting comment from a NYT's poster today.
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"I attended medical school on the east coast and completed my training in Arizona. The disparity in the medical culture between east and west in my experience was enormous.

I found the clinical physicians on the east coast to be, with some exceptions, egotistical a%%holes with the full support of the hospital administration. My experience in the west has been the polar opposite.

Looking back now, most of these guys were clowns and their arrogance breeds physicians who think this is the way physicians should act.

Sorry to let the cat out of the bag, but taking out a gall bladder is about as difficult as changing the oil in your car. Sadly, many of these folks don't know how to do either."

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Obviously this guy is disgruntled but do you guys think there is any truth to the east coast med culture being more abusive than the rest of the US?

East Coast residency programs overall are ranked pretty highly such as MGH for IM, CHOP or Peds, and the list goes on, such places tend to attract attendings who are abrassive, so any place you go where they are big shots you are likely to run into some pretty big personalities.

Arizona has their share of incompetent and rude physicians as well, believe me. One PD of an IM residency program in Arizona acts very mean to some. John McCain is also a senator from Arizona and has a temper to match the scorching weather. Often times residency looks a lot better compared to medical school. From personal experience some of the nicest physicians I have met were in New York, so go figure.

 

[dragonfly99]

Agree with much of the above, although I do agree there are some cultural and social differences between different areas of the country. I do think that people tend to be in more of a hurry, and to be a little more abrasive, in the northeast vs. some other places (such as South or West). However, I think it is unfair ot generalize about an entire coast based on one person's experiences (likely at one hospital). Also, people tend to treat you like crapola when you are a med student, particularly at certain hospitals, but it gets a little better during residency.