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Have any of you done a rotation where someone who treated you was the attending?
I was planning on doing my ortho rotation on the ortho-onc service however I ended up seeing one of the ortho-oncologists who actually did surgery on me. (Turns out nasty stress-fractures get sent to ortho-onc - news to me! The preliminary results from the biopsy she did during fixation was totally normal as we all expected, thank goodness!)
Would you recommend I change my plan and do ortho-trauma instead? Or do you not think it is a problem? I know students scrub with her and the other ortho-oncologist on the rotation, which could potentially be awkward. But I am not super worried given that I of course dont remember any of the surgery part, I dont have any huge medical secrets to hide, and she does this all the time. And she is super cool. Also grading for sub-specialties is pretty much a no-brainer - you do the work, you get a high-pass.
So awkward or not awkward? Or doctor-patient relationship dependent?
I was planning on doing my ortho rotation on the ortho-onc service however I ended up seeing one of the ortho-oncologists who actually did surgery on me. (Turns out nasty stress-fractures get sent to ortho-onc - news to me! The preliminary results from the biopsy she did during fixation was totally normal as we all expected, thank goodness!)
Would you recommend I change my plan and do ortho-trauma instead? Or do you not think it is a problem? I know students scrub with her and the other ortho-oncologist on the rotation, which could potentially be awkward. But I am not super worried given that I of course dont remember any of the surgery part, I dont have any huge medical secrets to hide, and she does this all the time. And she is super cool. Also grading for sub-specialties is pretty much a no-brainer - you do the work, you get a high-pass.
So awkward or not awkward? Or doctor-patient relationship dependent?