shadowing DO

[stwei]

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Should you wine and dine the DO you are shadowing? 😕 I had bought my mentor hot dogs, donuts, and hot cocoa and ran back and forth to get her the right chips she wanted when I was doing independent research at a medical laboratory. 🙄 Is it part of a nonverbal agreement for some of you shadowing DOs as well?

 

[Robz]

I offered to buy lunch and I offered to give a gift and NONE of my DO's/MD's I shadowed wanted anything. In fact they all told me not to bother bring a lunch or offer one cause the drug reps always bring good free food.


They were right I ate like a freaking king!!! (and learned all about new drugs cause they thought I was a medical student then)

 

[DOctorJay]

I found 2 really good guys, shadowed each separately (they're in practice together) and wrote them nice thank you letters on personal stationery. I don't think it's necessary to buy them anything but I only shadowed each of them once and they were willing to write letters on my behalf. If you'll be shadowing for much longer then perhaps lunch would be nice.

-J

 

[r90t]

You aren't there to be a slave, that is what interns/residents/MAs are for. It is sad if a physician has a student buy him lunch. I'd always pay for a student rather than having it the other way around. The salary differential is huge and it isn't a big deal to spring for lunch. I do that weekly for my guys right now. What you could do is make sure you send an appropriate thank you for volunteering his time.

 

[dcratamt]

No one likes a kiss ass. 👎

 

[dcratamt]

Yo! Get me a donut. You know the one with the sprinkles, but not the rainbow ones - the chocolate ones. And, while your at it, get me a coffee as well - one cream one sugar... No make that one cream and a sweet and low!

 

[stwei]

😱

 

[dcratamt]

😱

Hahahaha