- Joined
- Oct 16, 2004
- Messages
- 929
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-Conflicting orders. Resident: "Don't write in the chart. Leave it to me. You'll screw it up." Attending: "Mr. Forbiddencomma, why are you too lazy to chart your patients?"
-Nurses Who Eat the Young. "I just thought that you should know that dealing with med students is the least important part of my job." -- actual verbatim (and totally unprovoked) quote from an RN
- Security and hospital IT that treats med students with the same respect as car thieves. Students at my place are barely allowed to walk in through the front door or access the electronic charting system at all... and forget about getting into the ICU or rescheduling a patient without a humiliating call to a nurse. "They don't let me do these things. They also don't let me walk around without my special helmet on lest I hurt myself."
- "Lets go see the patient together" -- translation: "Go stand in the corner and don't do anything. And don't talk. In fact, try to be completely invisible."
This is a wonderful transition from all the classwork we've had up till now. Seeing real patients with real problems, and working long hours as a student doctor instead of just a student. And what better way to honor third year than by griping about it?
-Nurses Who Eat the Young. "I just thought that you should know that dealing with med students is the least important part of my job." -- actual verbatim (and totally unprovoked) quote from an RN
- Security and hospital IT that treats med students with the same respect as car thieves. Students at my place are barely allowed to walk in through the front door or access the electronic charting system at all... and forget about getting into the ICU or rescheduling a patient without a humiliating call to a nurse. "They don't let me do these things. They also don't let me walk around without my special helmet on lest I hurt myself."
- "Lets go see the patient together" -- translation: "Go stand in the corner and don't do anything. And don't talk. In fact, try to be completely invisible."
This is a wonderful transition from all the classwork we've had up till now. Seeing real patients with real problems, and working long hours as a student doctor instead of just a student. And what better way to honor third year than by griping about it?
