medical student heckler
8 Nov 2010 06:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mayoraaseiWah wah I'm a medical student
I began reading it expecting I would agree, except I cannot.
Yes sure, I've done my share of whining about unreasonable doctors, but hey, everyone's allowed a bitch, right?
I just think if you're a medical student you have to come to terms with the fact that you chose this profession, with all its self-indulgent and obsessive-compulsive personalities, and no wonder you're going to get chewed to bits while they can grind you into the ground.
And frankly, in any profession with a mix of competitive personalities like that and under that amount of daily stress, you'd get treated like dirt at the bottom of the food chain.
I don't understand the medical student/intern whinge about paperwork. Every profession starts at the bottom of the chain doing the most mundane and nasty of jobs, and works up. I don't see why the medical profession thinks it could be exempt from this.
Yes, 40 years ago people graduated and actually GOT TO DO STUFF, like MEDICAL STUFF. But instead of complaining about the people who are just as locked into the system as you will be, why not hassle the beaurocrats and THE BLOODY LAWYERS who turned the health system this way? After all, it's because of the fear of people in black suits that they've introduced enough paperwork to continually deplete an entire forest (seriously...stuff like sending a copy of every pathology result and discharge letter both by post and by fax just gets the shizz on my inner Greenie, all because of that one patient out of whatever-thousand for whom you might miss the results and end up with a court case on your hands. LIFE WOULD BE BETTER WITHOUT BLOODY LAWYERS. The end.)
I began reading it expecting I would agree, except I cannot.
Yes sure, I've done my share of whining about unreasonable doctors, but hey, everyone's allowed a bitch, right?
I just think if you're a medical student you have to come to terms with the fact that you chose this profession, with all its self-indulgent and obsessive-compulsive personalities, and no wonder you're going to get chewed to bits while they can grind you into the ground.
And frankly, in any profession with a mix of competitive personalities like that and under that amount of daily stress, you'd get treated like dirt at the bottom of the food chain.
I don't understand the medical student/intern whinge about paperwork. Every profession starts at the bottom of the chain doing the most mundane and nasty of jobs, and works up. I don't see why the medical profession thinks it could be exempt from this.
Yes, 40 years ago people graduated and actually GOT TO DO STUFF, like MEDICAL STUFF. But instead of complaining about the people who are just as locked into the system as you will be, why not hassle the beaurocrats and THE BLOODY LAWYERS who turned the health system this way? After all, it's because of the fear of people in black suits that they've introduced enough paperwork to continually deplete an entire forest (seriously...stuff like sending a copy of every pathology result and discharge letter both by post and by fax just gets the shizz on my inner Greenie, all because of that one patient out of whatever-thousand for whom you might miss the results and end up with a court case on your hands. LIFE WOULD BE BETTER WITHOUT BLOODY LAWYERS. The end.)
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Date: 2010-11-08 09:05 am (UTC)And your last paragraph. YES. It's not like anyone actually enjoy doing paperwork or getting other people to do paperwork, but unfortunately it's got to be done because of the stupid system.
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Date: 2010-11-09 07:59 am (UTC)I think we had our bitch session last time but yeah as you said apart from a few random 'tards who get my blood pressure up, everyone else has been surprisingly nice. I guess it's just the way you prefer to look at it, whether you think you deserved to be treated well or you look at people treating you well as something they don't have to do but have gone out of their way just to provide you that education.
And yeah, most patients are surprisingly open and friendly. Seriously prior to doing this I'd totally kick people out if they charged into my room =/
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Date: 2010-11-09 07:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-09 09:52 am (UTC)