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Hope you guys can help me out! I work on the surgical ward and I've gotten along really well with a bunch of the (surgical) interns. They invited me to a BBQ after work yesterday, and I asked if other pharmacists could tag along, yep they were fine with that and I managed to recruit two others to come The two pharmacists that came were the medical ward pharmacist and a newcomer who's working in dispensary for at least the next week. The BBQ was organised by medical students, so I didn't feel any awkwardness there.
Now one of the surgical interns is an admin of a secret FB group for all of the medical and surgical interns to socialise (mental health is very much their own entity). She added me and the next event they have is another BBQ on Sunday. The problem is that neither of the other pharmacists are members, and though I understand about the newcomer, the medical ward pharmacist didn'tactually hear about this first BBQ that has passed until I told her. I'm not sure whether it's because the medical interns didn't think to ask her, or maybe that that level of rapport hasn't developed yet between them (she works on a 38 bed medical ward which you can imagine is insane and this is the end of the interns' second week here. She also has mild Asperger's which she confided to me in, and though she socialises well enough, it is also evident, from a few minutes of conversation, that socialising is not her forte though people may not guess it is Asperger's as such).
So, can you see where this is going? I don't want to rock up to this BBQ on my own because if word got out to pharmacy then it could be misinterpreted as me thinking I'm too good for pharmacy (which is absolutely not true!) Me and this medical ward pharmacist have an amicable relationship--you could almost say the start of a friendship? Oh, and I can't pretend I didn't see the invite because it's one of those event invites where it lists who has seen it already (dammit FB's stalkingness!)
So how do I handle the situation? Do I go? (there is no RSVP to the BBQ so at least if they were so picky as to check, all they would be able to extrapolate is that I saw the invite but couldn't make it). Should I ask this medical ward pharmacist? (the newcomer, I would have no hesitation in asking to tag along though I doubt he'd be able to make it this weekend anyway) Thanks!
Now one of the surgical interns is an admin of a secret FB group for all of the medical and surgical interns to socialise (mental health is very much their own entity). She added me and the next event they have is another BBQ on Sunday. The problem is that neither of the other pharmacists are members, and though I understand about the newcomer, the medical ward pharmacist didn'tactually hear about this first BBQ that has passed until I told her. I'm not sure whether it's because the medical interns didn't think to ask her, or maybe that that level of rapport hasn't developed yet between them (she works on a 38 bed medical ward which you can imagine is insane and this is the end of the interns' second week here. She also has mild Asperger's which she confided to me in, and though she socialises well enough, it is also evident, from a few minutes of conversation, that socialising is not her forte though people may not guess it is Asperger's as such).
So, can you see where this is going? I don't want to rock up to this BBQ on my own because if word got out to pharmacy then it could be misinterpreted as me thinking I'm too good for pharmacy (which is absolutely not true!) Me and this medical ward pharmacist have an amicable relationship--you could almost say the start of a friendship? Oh, and I can't pretend I didn't see the invite because it's one of those event invites where it lists who has seen it already (dammit FB's stalkingness!)
So how do I handle the situation? Do I go? (there is no RSVP to the BBQ so at least if they were so picky as to check, all they would be able to extrapolate is that I saw the invite but couldn't make it). Should I ask this medical ward pharmacist? (the newcomer, I would have no hesitation in asking to tag along though I doubt he'd be able to make it this weekend anyway) Thanks!
