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My biggest fear is not my own abilities as a physician, but.... how much the residency director, managers, etc. are cool with me.
I say this because in my experience, the real world doesn't care how productive you are, they seem to only care if they like you.
As a medical scribe, the physicians seemed to not care for the good scribes if they just didn't get along with them. Same with other jobs, like EMT, CNA, etc.
People seem to get fired when the boss just doesn't like you, regardless of productivity.
My fear is that I will go through medical school, become a physician, get a residency, and for some reasons (any reason) my colleagues/boss wouldn't like me and fire me, regardless of my abilities as a physician.
I say this because I see it happen way too much for comfort. I've seen scribes/EMTs/CNAs work twice as hard as their colleagues only to be fired because the boss didn't really like them for whatever reason (sometimes as minor as the boss not caring to have a conversation with the employee and not finding them "fun" to talk to).
it was slightly a "shocker" coming out of chemistry graduate school and realizing the real world is extremely cut-throat, but not in the way I expected it to (productivity, efficiently), but cut-throat because it appears "how much the boss likes you" is by far more important, and who knows if My future residency directors, etc. will.
What are you thoughts?
I say this because in my experience, the real world doesn't care how productive you are, they seem to only care if they like you.
As a medical scribe, the physicians seemed to not care for the good scribes if they just didn't get along with them. Same with other jobs, like EMT, CNA, etc.
People seem to get fired when the boss just doesn't like you, regardless of productivity.
My fear is that I will go through medical school, become a physician, get a residency, and for some reasons (any reason) my colleagues/boss wouldn't like me and fire me, regardless of my abilities as a physician.
I say this because I see it happen way too much for comfort. I've seen scribes/EMTs/CNAs work twice as hard as their colleagues only to be fired because the boss didn't really like them for whatever reason (sometimes as minor as the boss not caring to have a conversation with the employee and not finding them "fun" to talk to).
it was slightly a "shocker" coming out of chemistry graduate school and realizing the real world is extremely cut-throat, but not in the way I expected it to (productivity, efficiently), but cut-throat because it appears "how much the boss likes you" is by far more important, and who knows if My future residency directors, etc. will.
What are you thoughts?