1. Stop being an ***
Why are you agreeing with this **** of a human?
Is there a smiley that I can use that can shed the tear I feel is necessary here? She agrees with me because she knows I'm right. I've known her since before she was a physician, and she has known me since before I was a medical student. She has seen all 1900 of my posts and knows that the advice I offer is generally spot-on and I have nothing but the best intentions for those who have legitimate questions and are respectful to those from whom they seek advice.
Also, where is my moderator to come in and save me from the viscious name-calling? Its my recollection of the rules (that I agreed to some seven years ago) that name-calling isn't allowed.
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2. Stop assuming things about me
What did I assume? That you would rather someone else do your work for you than to do it yourself? With the evidence presented on this forum, what other conclusion could I draw?
4. You sound like the people at the Westboro Baptist Church.
If it is because they, too, say you should be self-reliant, then by God, organized religion has finally done something right.
Obviously, he likes to put others down because it makes him feel better. I wonder if he does it with his "sick, captive audience"?
What did I do to put you down? Say you were wanting others to do your work for you? Is that not true? Do we live in a society today that doesn't allow the truth to be said when it hurts the feelings of others?
People like him are the reason people think all doctors are dicks.
Look, you come here extolling your vast knowledge of surgery and how it should be (without ever having been a surgeon or gone through a surgery training program), preaching to medical students how they need to be completely dedicated and work hard, things about which you have no knowledge (not to say you don't work hard, but that you don't know what they are doing and how hard they are working). You equate the complaints and sarcasm on this forum to how we are with our patients, which again is a product of just how naive you are about people in general and surgeons in particular. Every person on this forum can tell you how they have been completely pissed about a consult or an action a patient has taken, yet when talking to the patient not five seconds later have been very calm and collected, because the frustration has nothing to do with the patient but the system. You come asking questions, but then criticize those offering answers when they aren't the answers you want to hear. If you want to play with the big boys and girls, you need to
grow up.
We have been very patient in answering your questions and tolerating your constant know-it-all attitude and insults you spew to those of us who you feel are inferior and are terrible clinicians. You need to learn to take criticism, as we all do it on a daily basis. You need to learn there are many different truths, and that in order to be the best you can be, you must accept all of these truths and navigate your own way through them to do what is best, be it for some future patient you have or life in general. You need to learn to be respectful of those to whom you address your questions, even if you don't agree with what they have to say.
All of these lessons are more important than becoming and EMT or starting a pre-med club in high school or watching an open appy video when it comes to getting into medical school.
I am very tolerant and very open-minded to most people on this forum, and will play devil's advocate to any side when I think people are losing the forest for the trees. What I do not tolerate, though, are arrogantly presumptive people who come in thinking they know more about things than they actually do, who speak as a voice of authority and who argue their theory with people who have actually experienced something. In my view, real world experience trumps theory and disrespecting people who have that experience when it disagrees with your theory, especially when you have come to them for help, is something I find unacceptable and unimaginable. Yet here you are, doing it almost every day you grace this site and make a post.
If you don't agree with something someone says, but find yourself in the situation where they have experienced it in real life and you have only experienced it on television or in whatever fantasyworld you live, don't snap back; you discredit yourself and make it such that no one wants to help you. If it continues, I guarantee you will find all of your questions ignored and that no one will offer to help you anymore.
You've really got a fascination with the open appy, don't you? I think you've mentioned this procedure more than any other operation - including all of the CT Surg ones that you love. 🙂
