Newsweek "My Turn" on Medical Errors

[PrincessFiona]

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Oh, gosh...I SO WISH I could post my story on this topic. It physically HURTS to keep this bottled up.

Call room? :huh: Don't torture us.

Re: Newsweek "My Turn" on Medical Errors

My husband got rapped on the knuckles with the scalpel as a student. The surgeon said "suction" and apparently he didn't want the blood suctioned, he wanted the smoke from the bovie (?) suctioned. I'm like, "I can't believe he used the scalpel." "Well, it was the flat side of the blade." "Still not okay!" "That's true."
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Gee - I guess that my story about the woman slapping my arm when I worked at Record Town b/c I didn't like Michael Bolton doesn't really seem so bad now.

A scalpel. Jerk.

[alison]

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In Germany, you basically don't talk to attendings (as a student) unless you're spoken to. When dh first started doing rotations here, he was shocked that the students would ask to do certain procedures. Shocked more that they even opened their mouths to voice their opinions.

[PrincessFiona]

Re: Newsweek "My Turn" on Medical Errors

In Germany, you basically don't talk to attendings (as a student) unless you're spoken to. When dh first started doing rotations here, he was shocked that the students would ask to do certain procedures. Shocked more that they even opened their mouths to voice their opinions.

HA...I have a story about THAT, but I don't dare divulge it either.

[DCJenn]

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Well, as you all know by now, the WORST one was the medical student who told my husband to F off in front of a patient...(because he had the nerve to ask him if he had done the H & P. and he said "no, you do it." and my husband motioned for him to leave the room so that he could discuss that fact that 1) he was a MEDICAL STUDENT and 2) They needed the H & P and 3) He was a Lt. and my husband was a Captain and 4) He asked him to do it way before this.

and that was when the medical student in front of the patient said, "F off."

and that was when my husband walked away and went into the doctor's lounge, punched a hole in the wall and came back and asked MEDICAL STUDENT TO LEAVE and did the H & P himself.

and yet, they're so desperate for neurologists that they actually accepted this dickhead into the residency program, where he pissed off so many people that he was kicked out and is completing his payback at the USUHS health clinic where people can keep an eye on him.

Jenn

[GrayMatterWife]

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Well, as you all know by now, the WORST one was the medical student who told my husband to F off in front of a patient...(because he had the nerve to ask him if he had done the H & P. and he said "no, you do it." and my husband motioned for him to leave the room so that he could discuss that fact that 1) he was a MEDICAL STUDENT and 2) They needed the H & P and 3) He was a Lt. and my husband was a Captain and 4) He asked him to do it way before this.

and that was when the medical student in front of the patient said, "F off."

and that was when my husband walked away and went into the doctor's lounge, punched a hole in the wall and came back and asked MEDICAL STUDENT TO LEAVE and did the H & P himself.

and yet, they're so desperate for neurologists that they actually accepted this dickhead into the residency program, where he pissed off so many people that he was kicked out and is completing his payback at the USUHS health clinic where people can keep an eye on him.

Jenn

Holy cow. I mean that.

[alison]

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In Germany, you basically don't talk to attendings (as a student) unless you're spoken to. When dh first started doing rotations here, he was shocked that the students would ask to do certain procedures. Shocked more that they even opened their mouths to voice their opinions.

HA...I have a story about THAT, but I don't dare divulge it either.

Oh, come on Kris! Tell us!