LOL I wasn't teasing hahaha, I thought he could "comiserate" with the show. That black lady boss they call "the nazi"...
Actually, it's not hazing. It's just that they do not have enough house officers. So, everyone has to do calls every other day. It's also due to a stupid policy to review patients THREE times a day. I'm in the Obs ward where patients' condition generally don't change much. So, reviewing them three times a day is just wasting time and exhausting the house officers. As for the weird attitudes of some MOs and specialists, well, it's just that some of them have really big egos.. and a bad case of superiority complex. Just because they come from a prestigious university (in their opinion or otherwise), they immediately assume you are inferior and do their best in putting you down. But I guess that's common in a lot of workplaces.
Such experiences are common every where and not only in the medical field. It's how you cope with it and how you emerge from it that determines the type of character that you are. So, stop looking at it as a problem or something that annoys you; consider it more as a challenge and tell yourself, "I'm better than this, and I won't make the mistakes this schmuck of a MO is making with me!"
Agreed. Like I said, this is common in most workplaces. All I want everyone to know is that medicine is NO EXCEPTION to the rule. For all the talk about it being an honourable profession and how we all sacrifice for humanity, well, it's certainly sobering to see we are all still a bunch of insecure egomaniacs.
Yeah, struggling through it actually... Wanted to do Medicine too originally, but can't afford it. Guess I wouldn't have been able to do it either, seeing how badly I'm doing right now. Oh well... I guess you're right, my housemanship [if I graduate] would be lots easier than yours! Gosh, Boss, with your workload and all, can you really make it to the ARP BBQ this year? Yeah, well, I'd pass... ROTFL!!!
I dunno.. didn't seem to me that they had a choice in the matter.. it's not as if you can give birth any other way. I'm sure at least some people would pass on the sacrifice if they could. Well then you get to see a cervix. Up close. And you get paid for it. Nothing wrong with those women, right ? Wish I could.. did have the grades for it
Good question. But if what I plan to do works out, I may not even have to bother applying for leave. But if I do stick with the programme, I will probably keep applying again and again, until they let me go.
They don't? Giving birth is a choice they make. Yes, only women can give birth. But they do not HAVE to give birth, you know. Many women remain nulliparous for all of their lives. No idea what's with you and the cervix... But you can check out medical books if you want to see what a cervix looks like. OR you can follow your girlfriend or wife to the gynaecologist next time and ask if you can have a look at her cervix. Really? But we don't really know that, do we?
Oh, I'm pretty sure I can do it. If the others can do it, why can't I? The question now is... why should I? Most of the house officers here do not have any choice in this matter. But I do. Therein lies the difference.
I might have missed this somewhere in the thread, but what alternative(s) do you have that the others don't?
his alternative is to live on the revenus he's getting from ARP forum-ners post, registration fees, yearly renewal fees, monthly subscription fees, additional cost for usage of emoticons and smilys in post etc... oh? he hasn't done that yet? oops..
Sounds like there's a plan! What is it, Boss? They could always opt for a C-section... Btw, what's "nulliparous", Boss? ROTFL! And flush all those years, fees and effort in Med School down the drain?
Alternatives? Well, developing ARP professionally is certainly one. Starting a writing career is also another. In addition, I've been offered positions in a couple of magazines... so that's a possibility as well. But for me, job satisfaction is very important. I can't work well unless I'm happy doing what I do.
Well, any surgery comes with risks, even a relatively simple one like a Caesarean section. Spontaneous vertex delivery is still the best way to deliver. Nulliparous refers to a lady who has not given birth to any child before. Not really. What you learn will always stay with you. In any case, medical school has changed the way I look at things, how I think, etc. So, it's not really a loss.
