HERE COMES A HUGE RANT.....
I have soooo had enough of this kiss-a$$ FP Intern
.....if there are any interactive teaching sessions or pimp-questions asked by the Attending and/or NP that he cannot answer and someone else can when directly asked (ie: me) his kid immediately starts up with PERSONAL attacks against me, my husband's profession ("Oh, puulllleeezz, being a magician isn't a REAL job..."), my former profession ("oh, you didn't really handle any traumas as a nurse..."), and my future profession (EP's are stupid, don't know what they're doing, "here's yet another story of a stupid EP...", etc.). I HAVE HAD IT. This kid as been a Doctor for all of 5 minutes of his life in only one hospital, and thinks he has the stones to insult everyone and anyone he pleases.
....Attendings think (or appear to as far as I can see) that he's a "real go-getter" and just "knows what he wants" when he starts making snappy-a$$ comments about crap he has no clue about --- ie: "When *I* ordered the blood drawn and it was taking forever, I was like COME ON PEOPLE LET'S MOVE and I just went in and drew it myself and showed those nurses..." On a trauma: "...well if the pt is stuck in the wreck the EMT's just have to
P-U-L-L H-I-M O-U-T then, DDDUUUHHHH. COME ON PEOPLE, just pull him out, I mean REALLY. It's not that hard..." So I pipe up (along with another student from another service (I assumed from their comments must have been an EMT) that happened to be standing in the particular huddle at the time) that the pt can't just be hauled out of a vehicle by being grabbed under the shoulder's and pulled....this is real-life and not TV and that's not the way things are done. He should do a ride along sometime or take a class to see exactly how a scene is secured, pt extricated, etc.....(PS: extrication time on the pt was >1-1/2 hours using heavy equipment and there was talk possibly having to amputate a body part in order to get the pt out). After finding out that info, the jerk changed his tune and re-adjusted the all-mighty-attitude-look on his face.
...He also makes sure he lets EVERYONE know every chance he gets that he comes in at 0-dark-30 to start rounds and finish his notes/orders on his patients, AND makes sure to mention numerous times that, while he's at it, he goes around and updates himself on the other 2 Interns' patients and write THIER orders....so now the other 2 Intern's look like slackers, the Senior IM Resident looks like they aren't in control of the team, and I look like I can't write a couple of notes fast enough (he makes sure to time his notes before mine instead of just signing off/adding to my note -- hell, he's not even co-signing my notes). This, of course, makes me feel like my notes are not worth the paper they are written on, since no one is looking at them anyway (because of this I'm actually going to start following one or two of the other Intern's patients). Deep down, not that I give a flying **** after all, this place is NOT my Intern or Residency site and I'm done with this damn place in another 8 days, but still.....I make an effort here to show up on time, write a nice complete note, know enough about the pt for rounds (of which I get underminded by jacka$$), participate in all the teaching sessions, and put a happy-face on all day to look like I'm interested in everything that anyone is doing and saying....and I get to look like and be treated like an a$$-hole by a gunner Intern.
.....He started in with me on Friday about scutting me out for my last days, I leaned over to the other Intern sitting next to me and said in a loud voice, "You know, he just can't stop busting my ovaries....you should have heard him ripping on me when you were off post-call the other day..." That shut this a$$ up for a while. ggggrrrrrrrr
On top of it, the school gives us this great threatening e-mail that if they don't have this current rotation's paper work by the Monday after this rotation ends, we are NOT going to get a diploma at graduation.
And, by the way, don't call or e-mail about checking if they got it after you send it b/c they don't want to hear it......Talk about almost sh*tting myself reading all this. In response to this most recent threat to my safe graduation, I'm going to give out evals on Thursday, to be handed back to me either that day or Friday morning....so I can take them to the Grand-Poh-Bah IM Director to write a summary eval on Friday/latest Tuesday am (b/c Monday is a Holiday)....so I can RRRUUUUUNNNNN my hiney over to the post office to Next-Day Mail all my paperwork to the school (and have a nice tracking number just in case.....). You know, the more I think about it, I would have *gladly* given up one of my electives if it meant being done with rotations and allow for some breathing room before graduation to avoid something like this.
I HAVE HAD ENOUGH I HAVE HAD ENOUGH I HAVE HAD ENOUGH.....
Kat
and wax philosophical....here's JMHO....
