So, it's goodbye Internal Med, Hello Surgery.
It was fun while it lasted. I hope I did well in my exam...
I was prepped tonight over sushi by friends that being in surgery is a practice of patience, endurance, and ninjitsu (art of invisibility). It seems that a good deal of the surgical residents and attendings are douches (and that term is used in the most endearing way). They make you come in at 5:30AM, they make you stand for hours on end, they don't give you lunch breaks, they deny you catered food from their meetings (vs. Internal med docs who are nice and quite willing to share the catered goodness), and they treat you as if you're a lackey who is undeserving of their respect. Apparently these people are likened to the prototypical petty high school jocks and socialites who are highly prone to back-stabbing and trash-talking.
One must be blind, deaf, and mute to survive in such a rotation, so they say. Avoid the drama, if I can...but keep eyes and ears open for potential blog topics on this rotation. Wish me luck.
Hmmm...six weeks of this? At least I get to wear comfy scrubs.
Song of the day: "Slow New York" - Richard Julian
6 comments:
Ooo scrubs, I miss scubs, you can be blotted and feeling ugly and you don't have to worry about whether they fit, runs in your stocking or anything like that - not that you have to worry about that - and enough with that kind of sharing, on to some other kind.
I dated a resident General Surgeon and I wholly agree with assessment. Though I will say - you never know they can surprise you. Have fun.
We had 12 weeks of surgery...6 of "general" (divided into general, trauma/acute care, and general at our local VA) and 6 of specialty surgery (we have 3 2-week blocks). It wasn't awful.
S&P, I'm always up for surprises...but only if they're good ones. Sucks the surgeon didn't turn out so well. Maybe you aught to try dating someone from Internal Med or Family Med. I hear they're a lot better looking ;)
High Energy, you are very lucky. I sure hope my friends are wrong in their assessment. I don't want to approach this new rotation with a closed and guarded mind.
Wow, your school is really into surgery. We had 12 weeks of Family Med (8 weeks Outpatient/Inpatient, 2 weeks OMM, 2 weeks public service outreach). I think you would've liked that.
Ms. Big as he's referred to on the blog, ended up dating a coworker of mine, oh the drama. He as a person outside of work had redeeming qualities - so maybe consider that though they don't act human, they hopefully somewhere in all that are.
And I would agree the Family Practice ones do look better, though in my experience they've either been gay or married.
HAHAHA! We need a new breed of Family practice physicians then!
I completely agree!
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