Like the WS I started dropping the F-bomb more after I started residency and especially after I started covering Trauma/ED consults as a Senior Resident. That sucked.
But I think I'm in control of it too... I only drop such words in the company of other like-minded individuals within my program.
Although this one time I was written up for a "workplace violence" citation when a NEW nurse called me, as an R3, several times about some GU patient who wasn't on my service... Kept asking me about the patient's postop pain meds... I said, each time, "Please call the GU Resident." After her fourth attempt at calling GU, not getting a hold of the pee-pee doc, and then calling me for a solution, I asked, "Just why the hell do you think it's my responsibility to cover a GU patient when I'm running around this place covering Trauma and ED consults?"
"Well, you're GENERAL Surgery, aren't you? Don't you take care of all the GENERAL problems?"
(Enraged) "I don't know whose a$$ you dug that bull$hit out from, but I don't give a f*** about your thoughts on who a General Surgeon is or what he does, now call the god damn GU Service and leave me the hell alone!"
Oops.
Anyway, moral of the story, try to keep it under wraps as much as you can. You tend to become a bit disinhibited when you work in a hospital at 80+ hours per week, especially if you're surrounded by people who use profanity to string sentences along (surgeons), and it may just carry out into the real world. It's not a good thing. Really, it's not. But it's damn colorful!