100% agreed. Some of the attendings I've scrubbed with have been pretty good but the majority of the residents I've had to deal with have been generally unpleasant people. Maybe it's just the programs where I've done my rotations but I've rotated at both a "good" and a "bad" place by reputation, so... I dunno.
I've got some more snarky ones to add to this growing list.
1. Don't ever say you're interested in GI (which I am) to anyone but the residents, because often times the surgeons love to lambast them for being ******* or something to that effect.
2. Be prepared to read up your Surgical Recall book for useless knowledge that, if you're not going into surgery, you'll still have to recite verbatim because for some reason surgeons think this is what is important to your learning.
3. If you can hide or get away easily without it hurting you, do it. It's not worth slogging through a six hour surgery if you're not interested.
4. For the love of god avoid Whipples. They're very cool to see once, but I quickly lose interest after an hour and by hour six or so I wanted to stab myself just to make sure I had sensation below the waist.
5. You'll find out very quickly if you're the kind of person who's interested in surgery. As someone who thought they wanted to do it, I was in for a rude surprise when it turned out how little I liked being in the OR.
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