I hate sick doctors who won't go home

[AF M4]

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[docbooboo]

See how you feel when that doc calls in sick and YOU have to pick up his/her shift in the ER. Who is this doc, I want him to work where I'm at.

 

[AF M4]

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[haujun]

This always seems to come up around this time of year...

One of the docs in my clinic gets sick. Not just "a bit of a runny nose" kind of sick, but "terrible sinus headache, coughing and sneezing all over the place kind of sick."

Despite my taking his patients, putting him on quarters and telling him to go home, he insists on staggering about the clinic miserably so that everyone has the opportunity to (a) see how dedicated he is for being at work like this and (b) get infected with whatever he has.

Command seems to love the heroic example he sets as he sits in his office and heroically blows snot all over his computer monitor. I however saw "Outbreak" as well as attended several classes during medical school, and one of the major lessons I learned during both is to never be around sick monkeys.

Unfortunately, my throat is now feeling a bit sore. Tomorrow I'm coating his PT gear in Icy-Hot. Let this be a warning to all you sickies who think your work is so important that it's worth exposing others to your cooties.

I think this dedication may be attributed to our training environment during residency. As a resident you cannot stay or go home because you are sick. Even when you become attending I think it is hard to change your ways.

 

[notdeadyet]

This is one of my biggest pet peeves in medicine. Folks do it in other industries, but eventually someone says, "Go home, Bob. Seriously... I don't want to get sick." You'd think healthcare providers would have the common sense to go home/send someone home when they're sick rather than making their co-workers and patients sick.

In business, there's something called the "hero culture" which good managers try to stamp out. When you have one of your people work all night on a project, he gets an attaboy. If it becomes a habit, either the employee or (more likely) his managers aren't doing their job.

Businesses that have the "hero culture" ingrained where people are always going to great lengths to get the job done is indicative of poor management.

 

[AF M4]

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