Rage To The Page!

[foodcoma]

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OK GUYS! We need to band together! I know this has been the topic of many gas forums ad nauseum, but this thread it gonna be the "be all and end all" for this topic. Here's the topic: I WANT MAC DADDY RESPONSES/CUT DOWNS TO SAY BACK THE NEXT TIME A SURGERY RESIDENT/ATTENDING HAS SOMETHING TO SAY ABOUT MY JOB!! so this no-gamer-aspiring surgeon in my class TOTALLY ripped on the anesthesia profession as a whole,saying how useless we are, how he could do our job, and how he can't wait until he is an attending so he can make fun of anesthesiologists!! For all the s h it that i expect to go down during residency (ex: "i can do your job", "everything you need to know about gas can be learned in 4 hrs", etc etc) from DUMB A$$ surgical residents, I wanna have ammunition ready for those moments! and yes, I am a rage-aholic. LET'S GO TEAM! START UP YOUR ENGINES! FIRE!

 

[Noyac]

OK GUYS! We need to band together! I know this has been the topic of many gas forums ad nauseum, but this thread it gonna be the "be all and end all" for this topic. Here's the topic: I WANT MAC DADDY RESPONSES/CUT DOWNS TO SAY BACK THE NEXT TIME A SURGERY RESIDENT/ATTENDING HAS SOMETHING TO SAY ABOUT MY JOB!! so this no-gamer-aspiring surgeon in my class TOTALLY ripped on the anesthesia profession as a whole,saying how useless we are, how he could do our job, and how he can't wait until he is an attending so he can make fun of anesthesiologists!! For all the s h it that i expect to go down during residency (ex: "i can do your job", "everything you need to know about gas can be learned in 4 hrs", etc etc) from DUMB A$$ surgical residents, I wanna have ammunition ready for those moments! and yes, I am a rage-aholic. LET'S GO TEAM! START UP YOUR ENGINES! FIRE!

Generally I just ask them what they did on their last vacation and the one b/4 that and the one b/4 that. Then I remind them that I get one week a month off and ask them if they wish to compare pay checks. This really kills them. After that I tell them that I have anesthetized more lap choles than they will do in a lifetime and that I couldn't imagine doing another hernia repair. Then I ask, " How do you keep it together when you do the same case time after time and then have to go make rounds and then to the clinic to listen to all those pts and their complaints?"

 

[Tenesma]

1) First realize that this is a symptom of most training programs where there is a constant desire between specialties to shove your ego around... You see the gastroenterology fellow giving **** to the family practice resident, you see the CT fellow giving **** to the cardiology fellow
AND THEN GUESS WHAT HAPPENS... everybody (most people) grows up in the real world of private practice and realizes that physican referral networks are your life line to a full bank account. Now the GI docs are kissing FP ass to get referrals, and the CT surgeons are kissing cardiology ass for the referrals.
IN other words - things are completely reversed in private practice

2) It is funny how some surgical residents have attitudes during their PGY-2 and PGY-3 year... It usually dissipates as they become more senior and take on more responsibility, with minimal back-up. At that point they are glad to have a good anesthesia resident behind the screen. Now if you are a dumb dip-sh i t then you deserve crap-talking.

3) Now (and this applies to all situations in the hospital), it is a lot easier for people to be jerks with people they don't have a connection with... Where I trained we (surgery/anesthesia at my PGY level) used to hang out at a bar across the street, so the only conversation in the OR revolved around 1) movies 2) cars 3) hot babes at the bar 4) girlfriend problems - no ego bull****

4) Finally, every once in a while there is a guy (or gal) w/ an ego issue... The only way to deflate them is to bark back louder, and reveal their ignorance on any given topic in a public humiliating way. This only works if you actually know more than they do (which isn't easy since gen surg breadth of knowledge is HUGE). One of my former co-residents was a former private practice general surgeon who came back to do anesthesia for the intellectual stimulation - and he gave me some good insight into doing this effectively.

5) bottom line, surgical residents appreciate good anesthesia residents and vice-versa... and the best way to cultivate that is to befriend the junior surgical residents so that as they mature into surgeons they understand the symbiotic relationship.

6) another bottom line, knowing your ****, keeping your cool during stormy cases creates respect - you gotta earn it bro

 

[Sammich81]

bump
and also answers to "aren't you going to be bored" or "ah, chose the lifestyle eh?" (not that I feel the need to apologize for the latter).

You can get good answers to the boredom question by looking through the FAQs 🙂

 

[supahfresh]

Lean in close and *sniff*...then say "dude, you stink."

 

[Monty Python]

Lean in close and *sniff*...then say "dude, you stink."

Ah yes .... Tom Cruise in Top Gun (1986), talking to "Slider" in the classroom.
The Navy just retired the last squadron of F-14 Tomcats, replacing them with the updated version of the F-18 Super Hornet.

 

[jetproppilot]

Ah yes .... Tom Cruise in Top Gun (1986), talking to "Slider" in the classroom.
The Navy just retired the last squadron of F-14 Tomcats, replacing them with the updated version of the F-18 Super Hornet.

"GOOSE, I'VE HAD ABOUT ENOUGH OF THIS S H I T!"

"I'M GONNA PUT ON THE BRAKES AND HE'S GONNA FLY RIGHT BY."

 

[canjosh]

"GOOSE, I'VE HAD ABOUT ENOUGH OF THIS S H I T!"

"I'M GONNA PUT ON THE BRAKES AND HE'S GONNA FLY RIGHT BY."

"YOUR EGO'S WRITING CHECKS YOUR BODY CAN'T CASH!!!"

 

[VentdependenT]

"My milkshake is better than yours dude."

 

[jetproppilot]

"YOUR EGO'S WRITING CHECKS YOUR BODY CAN'T CASH!!!"

"ANY YOU GUYS SEEN AN AIRCRAFT CARRIER AROUND HERE???"

 

[VolatileAgent]

you need to reach the level of zen where, when someone says something like that to you, you can just laugh at them. a good, hearty, robust laughter, shake your head and walk away. that you can do this knowing that (a) you really don't give a sh i t what they think about you and, (b) you are laughing because you realize that this is THEIR insecurity speaking, not yours.

laugh, dude. people do/say incredibly lame things when their insecurity drives them to do so.

"SORRY GOOSE, BUT IT'S TIME TO BUZZ A TOWER."

 

[canjosh]

"ANY YOU GUYS SEEN AN AIRCRAFT CARRIER AROUND HERE???"

'YOU DON'T HAVE TIME TO THINK UP THERE. IF YOU THINK, YOU'RE DEAD.'

'THE PLAQUE FOR THE ALTERNATES IS DOWN IN THE LADIES ROOM'

 

[supahfresh]

Generally I just ask them what they did on their last vacation and the one b/4 that and the one b/4 that. Then I remind them that I get one week a month off and ask them if they wish to compare pay checks. This really kills them. After that I tell them that I have anesthetized more lap choles than they will do in a lifetime and that I couldn't imagine doing another hernia repair. Then I ask, " How do you keep it together when you do the same case time after time and then have to go make rounds and then to the clinic to listen to all those pts and their complaints?"

i dont think this kind of a cutdown will make you feel any better. i think volatileagent has the right idea. if you dont give a s hit, just laugh it off.