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As a resident, I've come quite frequently into situations, particularly during signout, where the attending who's getting signout questions the decision making on the case and even though you might agree with them, you're held responsible for whatever the attending who saw the case decided. Most of the times the original attending is not even there, so you pretty much get the brunt of the criticism. What's the appropriate way of dealing with this stuff? Do you just take the criticism (sometimes bordering on abuse), or can you respectfully say that you agree with them? The latter does have the feeling though of throwing the attending who saw the case first under the bus.
Personally I think it's actually unprofessional to direct the brunt of the criticism at the resident and avoid saying anything to the attending. It's common knowledge that the most the resident can do is bring it up once or twice to the original attending, but it's really ultimately not the resident's decision. Recently I was in a similar situation, got a pretty nasty email (to the tone, "you knew this patient before. this is not x related") from the sign out attending. I just responded respectfully that I thought the same, as I thought it was important to set some kind of boundaries and not just let it slide.
Personally I think it's actually unprofessional to direct the brunt of the criticism at the resident and avoid saying anything to the attending. It's common knowledge that the most the resident can do is bring it up once or twice to the original attending, but it's really ultimately not the resident's decision. Recently I was in a similar situation, got a pretty nasty email (to the tone, "you knew this patient before. this is not x related") from the sign out attending. I just responded respectfully that I thought the same, as I thought it was important to set some kind of boundaries and not just let it slide.
