ok, so I saw this paradox last week, and it kicked me thinking for a while about what this whole profession is about...
Morning, I went to the hospital for school stuff-we were supposed to shadow a preceptor on rounds just to see how it's done (what a relief cause I'm sick at all those IPPE reatails since I've been counting and licking for almost my whole life). My preceptor is a nice and humble guy with 2 years of residency and almost 8 years practicing ICU clinical pharmacy. As we were standing at the nurse station preping the paper and charts, there was this J-erk. *****-face guy advancing to us and patting my preceptor's back
JA..-face: "Hey S. long time no see, so you work here??"
My Preceptor: "Hi J., yeah how has it been? I've been a preceptor here for almost 3 years now after leaving xxxx where I did 2 years of residency"
JA..-face: "Yeah yeah I remember your name on that papers. I started with XYZ [a retail chain] and now I'm the manager. I gotta feed my mouth ya know" (sarcastic voice)
My preceptor: "That's good" (a bit awkward reply)
Ja.-face: "So how is it like to be the MD's B*tch? You kiss their behind really good huh?" (laughing a bit in saracasm) "There are some fine gal doctors around here I see" (really sarcasm, not at all a friendly joke between buddies)
OMG I just wanted to punch this effing j-erk right away. Yo, at least if you want to say things like that pull your friend over to a corner, don't just say it in front of his students and a few nurses... SO my preceptor just smiled and said "I'm happy at what I do now." I just stared at that ***** face for a bit and saw the nurses in the break room kinda laughed (the a-hole said it really loud). Later, I found out that the ***** face had some relatives staying at hospital and just paid a visist and ran into my preceptor.
Then after lunch I came into the "dungeon" pharm department to chitchat with some of the staff pharmacists there to see what it's like. Oh mine, they ridiculed all these new grads coming out and running into retail at once and not going for clinical training. One of the ladies even compared these new grad running into retail like moths running into candles' flame 🙂meanie:--my fav quote of the date).
At the end of the day, I asked my preceptor nicely "So you know that guy this moring" "Yeah he was my classmate back in when we were in school, he was really socially active then" (smile)
On the way home, I kept thinking about the paradox of this retail vs. clinical "story", chasing its own tail. I know, there are a bunch of threads on here comparing the two paths and please don't start another fight because of my story. I just need to vent a bit cause I really like this preceptor (hope to have him for my P4 rotation: the way he deals with people really really nice and professional).
What would you do if you were my preceptor facing that *****-face in that situation?? I already told my way of dealing with that j-erk 😡
Morning, I went to the hospital for school stuff-we were supposed to shadow a preceptor on rounds just to see how it's done (what a relief cause I'm sick at all those IPPE reatails since I've been counting and licking for almost my whole life). My preceptor is a nice and humble guy with 2 years of residency and almost 8 years practicing ICU clinical pharmacy. As we were standing at the nurse station preping the paper and charts, there was this J-erk. *****-face guy advancing to us and patting my preceptor's back
JA..-face: "Hey S. long time no see, so you work here??"
My Preceptor: "Hi J., yeah how has it been? I've been a preceptor here for almost 3 years now after leaving xxxx where I did 2 years of residency"
JA..-face: "Yeah yeah I remember your name on that papers. I started with XYZ [a retail chain] and now I'm the manager. I gotta feed my mouth ya know" (sarcastic voice)
My preceptor: "That's good" (a bit awkward reply)
Ja.-face: "So how is it like to be the MD's B*tch? You kiss their behind really good huh?" (laughing a bit in saracasm) "There are some fine gal doctors around here I see" (really sarcasm, not at all a friendly joke between buddies)
OMG I just wanted to punch this effing j-erk right away. Yo, at least if you want to say things like that pull your friend over to a corner, don't just say it in front of his students and a few nurses... SO my preceptor just smiled and said "I'm happy at what I do now." I just stared at that ***** face for a bit and saw the nurses in the break room kinda laughed (the a-hole said it really loud). Later, I found out that the ***** face had some relatives staying at hospital and just paid a visist and ran into my preceptor.
Then after lunch I came into the "dungeon" pharm department to chitchat with some of the staff pharmacists there to see what it's like. Oh mine, they ridiculed all these new grads coming out and running into retail at once and not going for clinical training. One of the ladies even compared these new grad running into retail like moths running into candles' flame 🙂meanie:--my fav quote of the date).
At the end of the day, I asked my preceptor nicely "So you know that guy this moring" "Yeah he was my classmate back in when we were in school, he was really socially active then" (smile)
On the way home, I kept thinking about the paradox of this retail vs. clinical "story", chasing its own tail. I know, there are a bunch of threads on here comparing the two paths and please don't start another fight because of my story. I just need to vent a bit cause I really like this preceptor (hope to have him for my P4 rotation: the way he deals with people really really nice and professional).
What would you do if you were my preceptor facing that *****-face in that situation?? I already told my way of dealing with that j-erk 😡
awesome suggestions... though I myself told people asking me to ring up there doritos to go to the front all the time. But right on man!!
