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We are quick to crucify the past practitioners for supervising nurses from the lounge or even outside of the hospital. We don't hesitate to place the blame on them for ruining our good standing in the medical society and ruining anesthesiology as a whole.
But our current members are no different at times. We go home after lunch. We drive the nicest cars. We have the biggest homes. Take the best vacations. And on and on. Everyone is watching. Society is willing to throw doctors under the bus because "the doctors" have it so good in their eyes. We are an easy target to someone working 8-5 with 2weeks vacation making <$100,000/yr. We look priveledged to regular people and it doesn't matter to them what it took on our part to get there. They don't care that I gve up my 20's while they were partying theirs asses off having a good 'ol time. It's all about the impression we give now. Jealousy, maybe but it doesn't matter because to others we have it made and they don't.
Which brings me back to anesthesiologists. We are seen as the priviledged physicians. We make good money and we have good schedules. Nobody cares how stressful it is or anything like that. All they see is us either releasing each other as if we are interchangeable. Going home mid day. Driving nice cars taking great vacations. And on and on. They don't know we were up at 3am doing heroic deeds from time to time. And they don't care.
So how do we change this or do we even care. Here's a hint, we had better care.
But our current members are no different at times. We go home after lunch. We drive the nicest cars. We have the biggest homes. Take the best vacations. And on and on. Everyone is watching. Society is willing to throw doctors under the bus because "the doctors" have it so good in their eyes. We are an easy target to someone working 8-5 with 2weeks vacation making <$100,000/yr. We look priveledged to regular people and it doesn't matter to them what it took on our part to get there. They don't care that I gve up my 20's while they were partying theirs asses off having a good 'ol time. It's all about the impression we give now. Jealousy, maybe but it doesn't matter because to others we have it made and they don't.
Which brings me back to anesthesiologists. We are seen as the priviledged physicians. We make good money and we have good schedules. Nobody cares how stressful it is or anything like that. All they see is us either releasing each other as if we are interchangeable. Going home mid day. Driving nice cars taking great vacations. And on and on. They don't know we were up at 3am doing heroic deeds from time to time. And they don't care.
So how do we change this or do we even care. Here's a hint, we had better care.