I remember a third year IM resident telling me she had to get three IV’s signed off (this is for her entire training) and she hadn’t done it yet. When we were looking at places to train, the ones that had doctors drawing labs or doing social work were looked down upon heavily. Different for critical care specialties of course, but for my…
I remember a third year IM resident telling me she had to get three IV’s signed off (this is for her entire training) and she hadn’t done it yet. When we were looking at places to train, the ones that had doctors drawing labs or doing social work were looked down upon heavily. Different for critical care specialties of course, but for my generation (and I’m still in residency as an outpatient physician only) scut work has declined and is viewed with utter contempt.
Congratulations. Anyone who knows me and/or has read my replies know I have the utmost respect for physicians in any stage of their learning process. I am of the era where, as a nurse, we stood up when the doctor came to the nurses station to give him our chair. Actually I'm still in that frame of mind. Best of the best to you, doctor.
Me, my father was a nurse so I would never take a seat from a nurse. I always try to work with them and make their lives a little easier. And I bring a lot of cupcakes.
I see the argument about medicine becoming sterile and inhuman, but I counter with my perspective that the increasing volume of medical information and the trend towards professional specialization makes it increasingly difficult to have a general skill set as a doctor, which to my mind is an insoluble problem.
I remember a third year IM resident telling me she had to get three IV’s signed off (this is for her entire training) and she hadn’t done it yet. When we were looking at places to train, the ones that had doctors drawing labs or doing social work were looked down upon heavily. Different for critical care specialties of course, but for my generation (and I’m still in residency as an outpatient physician only) scut work has declined and is viewed with utter contempt.
And I agree with that view.
Congratulations. Anyone who knows me and/or has read my replies know I have the utmost respect for physicians in any stage of their learning process. I am of the era where, as a nurse, we stood up when the doctor came to the nurses station to give him our chair. Actually I'm still in that frame of mind. Best of the best to you, doctor.
Oh I certainly didn’t mean to suggest otherwise.
Me, my father was a nurse so I would never take a seat from a nurse. I always try to work with them and make their lives a little easier. And I bring a lot of cupcakes.
I see the argument about medicine becoming sterile and inhuman, but I counter with my perspective that the increasing volume of medical information and the trend towards professional specialization makes it increasingly difficult to have a general skill set as a doctor, which to my mind is an insoluble problem.