I just rotated with an M4 who was making up his psych rotation bc his got cancelled during COVID. He has zero interest in psych, has already interviewed for his chosen super competitive surgical subspecialty, etc.
He was extremely rude to one patient during interviewing because he didn’t know crap about pharm - accused a patient of lying, to her face. He said something along the lines of, “you claim you don’t do illegal drugs, but your urine drug screen was positive for amphetamines - so obviously drugs got into your urine somehow.” I immediately interrupted him and told him phentermine is an amphetamine, which he didn’t know, since the patient had literally just told us she was on phentermine for weight loss. I also told him it explains her insomnia, since it has a 20-ish hour half life, and a lot of people have trouble sleeping on it.
He goes to the attending and made a big deal about how he thought her phentermine use probably exacerbated her anxiety/psychosis since it’s an amphetamine and how it was a reason she had insomnia LOL. I didn’t bother to say anything. I don’t want to go into psych either.
But just that he would call a patient a liar to her face because he didn’t know anything about pharm, and the way he confidently talked about the patient’s phentermine use to the attending like he came up with that crap himself, rubbed me the wrong way.