The "bad" side of Ob/Gyn.

[Leukocyte]

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Lets face it, every speciality has "good" things and "bad" things about it, and Ob/Gyn is no different.

What, do you think, are the "bad" things that are often seen in Ob/Gyn (residency or practice).

Things I can think of from my limited exposure during my MS-3 core:

--->Early morning rounds
--->Long hours
--->Frequent calls
--->Busy service
--->High Stress
--->Patient population (I do not want to sound sexist here, but I found the patient population, in general, to be:
-more emotional
-more liable to getting angry
-more liable to expressing their anger
-more liable to being not satisfied
-more difficult to work with

Anyone care to contribute their opinions/observations.

Thank You.

 

[deleted6669]

PREGNANT! HOW CAN I BE PREGNANT?
WELL I GUESS IT HAS BEEN 7 MONTHS SINCE I HAD A PERIOD AND THERE HAS BEEN ALL THAT WT GAIN...

worst offender.....morbidly obese 36 yr old fe. in clinic for routine pap. found 9 mo pregnant with twins...no clue

 

[timtye78]

#1 reason I chose against OB:
Was told it was the number one sued specialty....hmm not fun!

Other reasons,

1)more women prefer women docs
2)limited and cramped work space-how fun is it to spend hours in contorted positions holding retractors etc when you have three adults crammed in between some woman's legs during pelvic surgery?
3)yucky terms "vaginal d/c, odor, bleeding vagina, abortion, prolapse, lawsuit, liability to age 18"
4)blame substituted for appreciation
5)contraception methods
6)endocrinology
7)embryology
8)birth defects
9)lots of blood exposure
😱
Hope this helps!

 

[Zephyrus]

said to an ob/gyn on Family Guy:

"Craig, this is not a date!"

 

[rubensan]

I really considered doing Ob/GYN, but chose ophthalmology. My wife is a 2nd year Ob/GYN resident and I thought that only 1 of us needed to work that hard. But I will say that I rather enjoyed the patient population of general OB/GYN (excluding ONC). They are generally younger and healthier. Sometimes it is more enjoyable to see a 35 YO women for an annual exam than try to put a 75 YO diabetic s/p foot amputation x 1 properly situated in the slit lamp for their 6 month dilated fundus exam. Don't get me wrong, I am very glad that I am going into ophthalmology, but I find your assumptions about OB/GYN patients, residents and the field to be the exceptions rather than the rules. Every field has it's downfalls (yes, even derm, ophtho and plastics) and nothing is that terrible about any one field, you just have to find one that will make you excited to get out of bed every morning and go to work.

 

[JudoKing01]

Everytime I think about doing OB/GYN I think about trying to put an allis on the cervix of a 456 pound woman with legs so thick that even with a long nosed weighted speculum, a wide deaver anterior, and two hands holding the leg fat, it still takes 10 mins. That alone deters me everytime.

 

[DrBuzzLightYear]

why do you feel the need to come on our forum and bash our field of interest? to anyone whose decided to go into OBGYN, you just sound like small minded idiot.

 

[Apollyon]

but I find your assumptions about OB/GYN patients, residents and the field to be very general.

After a pregnant early 20's sickle cell pt, who was sniffing ammonia in her hospital room, threw and hit me in the chest with a 1lb jar of hair gel, after a patient complained about me 2 weeks after my rotation ended (with a nurse - not a nurse's aide - in the room the whole time, as a chaperone), after the rotation director took this as gospel without asking the nurse and dinging me brutally on paper 6 weeks after the end of my rotation (after kissing my ass to my face), after a senior resident telling me "all ob patients are CRAZY", after seeing (as a student), directly, a resident (who is now in practice for 4 years, I assume) butcher a woman in the OR (which lends credence to the story that, well, here's the short story - this resident as senior operated on a patient, pt continued to bleed, resident REFUSED to go back in (and this was a weak period for the residency, since they were on probation and the attendings were pushovers), and the patient bled out several days later)...

After all that, even if Leukocyte's comments (that were appropriately predefined as opinion) are "very general" (somewhat redundantly), I have to agree. And when 3 - three - women tell me that my pelvic exam in the ED was more gentle than their female ob/gyn's - what am I to think?

 

[rubensan]

After all that, even if Leukocyte's comments (that were appropriately predefined as opinion) are "very general" (somewhat redundantly), I have to agree. And when 3 - three - women tell me that my pelvic exam in the ED was more gentle than their female ob/gyn's - what am I to think?

okay, look, i'm not trying to start a forum war here. and i feel like i am a bit of an intruder of this forum so this will be my last post. but before i leave, i wanted to make the following points:

1. You're right, the use of the word, "general" was redundant. I've edited the original post and used a different adjective

2. Apollyon: sounds like you had a pretty bad OB/GYN clerkship much like i had a bad general surgery experience. i could share with you some similarly atrocious examples of what happened when i was a 3rd year med student on the non-trauma surgery service or the wonderful experiences i had on ob/gyn, but i'll spare you because i don't believe that anectdotal experiences from 1 medical student clerkship accurately reflects an entrie field of medicine. i just don't think it's all that healthy to perpetuate these types of streotypes since these people will be our colleagues and I guarantee that you will encounter a few OB patients in your meidcal career. I also firmly believe that arguments based on such ancedotal evidence such as "when I was medical student I had this resident that was... or I saw this one OB patient who told me... or this one OB attending did such and such hack job in the OR one time... are pretty weak. like i said, i'm not in the business of starting forum wars, so you're welcome to PM me if you want to discuss this further.

Hope you're having a fun Memorial Day.

 

[JudoKing01]

why do you feel the need to come on our forum and bash our field of interest? to anyone whose decided to go into OBGYN, you just sound like small minded idiot.

Who said I'm bashing your field of interest? I love OB/GYN. I just don't think I could do it. I give you guys and girls a ton of respect though.

Edit: BTW, this was a thread about what you thought the BAD side of ob was...I was just answering the question. Don't be so sensitive.

 

[Apollyon]

okay, look, i'm not trying to start a forum war here. and i feel like i am a bit of an intruder of this forum so this will be my last post. but before i leave, i wanted to make the following points:

1. You're right, the use of the word, "general" was redundant. I've edited the original post and used a different adjective

2. Apollyon: sounds like you had a pretty bad OB/GYN clerkship much like i had a bad general surgery experience. i could share with you some similarly atrocious examples of what happened when i was a 3rd year med student on the non-trauma surgery service or the wonderful experiences i had on ob/gyn, but i'll spare you because i don't believe that anectdotal experiences from 1 medical student clerkship accurately reflects an entrie field of medicine. i just don't think it's all that healthy to perpetuate these types of streotypes since these people will be our colleagues and I guarantee that you will encounter a few OB patients in your meidcal career. I also firmly believe that arguments based on such ancedotal evidence such as "when I was medical student I had this resident that was... or I saw this one OB patient who told me... or this one OB attending did such and such hack job in the OR one time... are pretty weak. like i said, i'm not in the business of starting forum wars, so you're welcome to PM me if you want to discuss this further.

Hope you're having a fun Memorial Day.

My Memorial Day was in the ED with an MCI (one patient was dead on scene, and the rest came in alive, but two kids are probably going to die), and then, although I wasn't in the case, there was an MVC vic that ended up coding and they cracked his chest - it was interesting seeing the clamshell open, and the surgeon finding the azygos rupture. Then, the room had to be cleaned for the NEXT trauma (surreal to see them pushing the guts back in, to roll the guy out).

My surgery experiences have likewise been horrible, but they don't stay with me. The ob/gyn - time and again - encounters I've had rankle me, and send my perception from neutral to negative. Although you see my post as punctuated by anecdotes, I apparently did not project my intent that, from my perspecitive, the specialty is suffused with obstacles.