Is it worth it?

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It is funny how these people can clime up the career ladder and become PDs/chiefs! I do agree with J DUB above, good things happens to good people. But, realistically they will make your life a hell and might end ones career. I don't know if there is any good advice to give, other than not giving up and going back to work in a grocery store.
In my case, I have had several clashes during the years with powerful people, a recent one with the head of Urology at our hospital (who is an ass, have had several residents fired, several attendings who resigned, if you look up the word jackass/bully in a dictionary you would se his face just next to these words), the only reason I still am around is that my chief of surgery plus several very powerful attendings (head of trauma, UGI, colorectal, and endocrine) has had my back. I do believe their support is partly due to their believes that I'm a good physician but mostly due to the fact that they know I play fair!
How is your relationship with the chief and the other attendings?
 
I'm convinced that some PDs pick out a "whipping boy" to torture every 1-2 years. Maybe you remind her of some dude that totally screwed her over in undergrad. Who knows. I would think about finishing this year and transferring.
 
Trauma Surgeon said:
It is funny how these people can clime up the career ladder and become PDs/chiefs! I do agree with J DUB above, good things happens to good people. But, realistically they will make your life a hell and might end ones career. I don't know if there is any good advice to give, other than not giving up and going back to work in a grocery store.
In my case, I have had several clashes during the years with powerful people, a recent one with the head of Urology at our hospital (who is an ass, have had several residents fired, several attendings who resigned, if you look up the word jackass/bully in a dictionary you would se his face just next to these words), the only reason I still am around is that my chief of surgery plus several very powerful attendings (head of trauma, UGI, colorectal, and endocrine) has had my back. I do believe their support is partly due to their believes that I'm a good physician but mostly due to the fact that they know I play fair!
How is your relationship with the chief and the other attendings?
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It doesn't matter what his relationship is with the Chiefs or other attendings

Chiefs do whatever PDs want and attendings don't care about the residents outside of the work getting done and they'll leave you out to dry regardless what they say or think about you privately.
 
OnTheRopesMD said:
I'm in a field that doesn't have those types of chiefs--everyone in their last year is considered a chief. My chair is in the subspecialty I am applying to and I feel like I get along with most everyone in that division, but they're a small part of the department. The PD has turned most of the general attendings against me because of lobbying behind the scenes (verified by multiple sources). I just hate the pit in my stomach every day, especially when you know yet another bitch-out session is coming. Nevermind that my side of any argument/situation is always completely ignored.
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Sounds like my old program.
Sorry dude. I don't have much advice to provide. Either keep working hard or try to broker a transfer deal.
 
OP I'm not US trained but have good contacts there from research years and meet old colleagues every year at two big meetings in US, so I hear a lot of stories… Once I met this resident from a high league university who told me a story about his journey. He started at a good name university hospital where he did not get along with the attendings/residents, and most of us in this business knows how the stories goes, if we don't like a person every little mistake from them will be scrutinized and every gossip about them is the truth! So what he did was he moved to another program for a payed 2 years research position, worked hard, got along with the PD who also was his PI, and he was lucky that a spot opened and he applied for it and got (read transferred) . Obviously I do believe he told me the truth, but I don't know how easy it is for you to take a spot in research at another institution or if you will be as lucky as him.
 
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