Plenty of questions... Why have residents left your program? What about that tricky probation issue? And when friends email the same person about questions about hotel reservations and get a brisk response, it's telling.
It's fairly unprofessional to ask questions like that in an email. Those are interview-type questions. And if you ask a difficult question, it's reasonable to expect not to get an immediate response, since the person doesn't always know how to answer it immediately, so they'll want to think about it a bit (and then maybe forget later) - by contrast, it's easy to answer a question about hotel reservations.
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Nevermind then. What a miserable bunch of people you are. It pretty much sums of the level of discourse around here to be called a massive douche after not saying anything mean to anyone. And this is a place for physicians to talk.
When everybody tells you that there's something wrong with what you're saying, there are two possibilities:
1. Everybody is right and you're wrong.
2. You're right and everybody else is wrong.
#2 is possible, but #1 is much more likely.
Also, with regard to your statement about
"not saying anything mean" - I should mention that you've said the following things:
"It's just rude to not respond to an e-mail personally addressed to you, for weeks" (in my opinion, it's rude to call somebody "rude" for something that a lot of people might not consider "rude." I'm sure that you're probably the kind of person who responds to all emails immediately, but you can't expect people in different positions to act the same way.)
"And I'm not intimidated by the snark brigade." (that sounds like "something mean" to me.)
" "E-mail us with questions!!!" I guess not. " (this may not have been your intention, but it seems that you're implying that somebody is being dishonest by saying that you can email them with questions, and then you later go on to point out that they DID respond to your friends' questions... don't you think that there's a possibility that the problem was with your question rather than with the person who didn't respond?)
"Hundreds of people emailing and calling daily? I just don't buy it." (you're directly contradicting something that somebody else said... and you're doing it in a dismissive manner. That sounds quite disrespectful, and if somebody had said that to me, I'd be quite annoyed.)
"t's obvious they are ignoring email to avoid answering inconvenient questions." (again, accusing somebody of something without considering the explanation that others seem to think is more likely.)
" I hope other people don't roll over so easily." (accusing people of "rolling over" rather than assuming that they might have a different reason for suggesting what they're suggesting.)
Instead of assuming that all PDs and PCs have an ulterior motive and that everybody on SDN is a "miserable bunch of people," maybe you should consider the possibility that you're being closed-minded. It seems to me that you've having a bit of difficulty putting yourself in another person's shoes. Remember that other people aren't working for you - they have different motivations for different actions.
