Peers rude to patients?

[JustPlainBill]

So I'm finishing up a surgery clerkship and the last series of procedures were at a 'surgical center' - you know the kind - small surgeries not likely to get real complicated and need full hospital support.

As students, we have to check in and the desk to check in at is the same one where patients check in for their procedures.

When we were done with all of the procedures we had scheduled that day, I'm walking out to check out and noticed my two peers had booked rather quickly and were out the door as I was coming up to the sign out desk. The lady working the front desk commented to me that my two peers were rude and condescending. She flat out stated that they had elbowed their way past a patient who was checking in and she basically gave them 'the look' and apologized for their behavior to the patient.

These two yahoos are part of the 'in' crowd in our class --- as far as they are concerned when they walk through the door, they're in charge and their pronouncements/comments on the situation or topic of discussion are THE final authority......yet they are traumatized when they haven't been shopping either on-line or at the mall in a week (this is no ****).....

So, point of all this --- 1)Do you have them in your class also? and 2)Is it worth talking to them or just let them get slammed on their own? I shudder to think that these people are 19.5 months away from being physicians......

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[Zuperdoc]

So I'm finishing up a surgery clerkship and the last series of procedures were at a 'surgical center' - you know the kind - small surgeries not likely to get real complicated and need full hospital support.

As students, we have to check in and the desk to check in at is the same one where patients check in for their procedures.

When we were done with all of the procedures we had scheduled that day, I'm walking out to check out and noticed my two peers had booked rather quickly and were out the door as I was coming up to the sign out desk. The lady working the front desk commented to me that my two peers were rude and condescending. She flat out stated that they had elbowed their way past a patient who was checking in and she basically gave them 'the look' and apologized for their behavior to the patient.

These two yahoos are part of the 'in' crowd in our class --- as far as they are concerned when they walk through the door, they're in charge and their pronouncements/comments on the situation or topic of discussion are THE final authority......yet they are traumatized when they haven't been shopping either on-line or at the mall in a week (this is no ****).....

So, point of all this --- 1)Do you have them in your class also? and 2)Is it worth talking to them or just let them get slammed on their own? I shudder to think that these people are 19.5 months away from being physicians......

hey bill, i am sure every class has the type of students you are describing, i know mine does. i guess it shouldn't bother you whether or not to talk to them. at the end of it all, they are your classmates, and you are in it together, so i would just be friendly to them.

you say they are part of the 'in-crowd', maybe once you get to know them, they aren't as bad as you thought! and as for them being rude to patients, maybe the receptionist blew it out of proportion or was having a bad day. i guess it is better not to judge. if i were you, i'd get to know them and just be friendly to them, and empathetic to the receptionist and patients, you can't loose!

 

[Droopy Snoopy]

I shudder to think that these people are 19.5 months away from being physicians......

Most overplayed SDN characterization ever.

Secretaries complain, it's what the put on their resume to land the job. Maybe it really went down the way the she said, but it could also be your perspective is skewed. This bogus holier-than-thou self regard rationalized from 26.5 months of sitting loftily on the outskirts of the class silently judging everyone apparently blinds you from the irony of blasting 'these two yahoos' for, among other things, a condescending attitude. Remove the mote from thine eye and all that, or maybe it's the stick from thine a**.

 

[JustPlainBill]

Wow---that's a first....accused by someone I don't know of having a broomstick up my a**......normally I'd make you give me flowers and shave before you attempted foreplay......

While it'll probably be viewed as no great loss, have fun people....I'm checking out of the net.....

 

[PeepshowJohnny]

Wow---that's a first....accused by someone I don't know of having a broomstick up my a**......normally I'd make you give me flowers and shave before you attempted foreplay......

While it'll probably be viewed as no great loss, have fun people....I'm checking out of the net.....

Wow, that was fast.

I have to say, the only people who I've seen be "rude" are a couple people in my class. But they are no means top of the class and tend to have a lot of other issues as well (They do bad on the test, then blame it on "gunners" and "bad professors")

That said, there are some people on the top of our class who aren't the most touchy feely types. They're a bit burusque with their patients to some, but they do care and are far from rude.

And I agree with secretaries being probably the most unreliable sources of information you'll ever see. Soon you'll find out that you'll be considered a "rude jerk" for asking questions as simple as "Can you tell me what nurse is taking care of Mr. X?"

 

[QofQuimica]

Bill,

You should mind your own business. Seriously, there are a limited number of battles that are really worth fighting, and this isn't one of them. You weren't even present for the alleged offense, and it has nothing whatsoever to do with you. You're a third year student; you really don't need to be getting a rep as a troublemaker for something that you heard about second-hand. The secretary shouldn't have even talked to you about your classmates' behavior, but regardless, you are not responsible for what they do. You can only be responsible for what *you* do. Throughout your career, you will find other boors behaving exactly like these two (or worse). Just take a step back, avoid being around people like this whenever you can, and try to find other classmates and physicians whose behavior you do think is admirable. Even when you are stuck with people who are not very professional, you don't have to be like them. And you can learn a lot from them about the kind of medical student and physician that you would *not* want to be. All of your experiences, even the bad ones, are part of your education if you look at things that way. Best of luck. 🙂

 

[SleeplessCDN]

Bill,

Tell her to complain to the doctor responsible for overseeing your classmates instead of you because you didn't witness what happened and I would suggest you not get involved any further in the matter other then what I have just stated above.