http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2008/07/08/primary_care_physicians/
My vets have been better and more professional than the MD's I've encountered recently. I personally corrected two successive errors (in a teaching hospital!) the examining resident AND the senior attending missed.
They admitted the mistakes, sheepishly, when it was pointed out to them. Never mess with a sergeant. Especially one who functions as GP and specialist in his own right, in his own field.
I know of at least one medical professional on one of the discussion boards who could learn something from the vets, too. The vets still care about their patients.
Note to Queen Bee: The vets were better looking than you, too.
Monday, July 7, 2008
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I'm an in-training medical professional, Wally, and the degree to which the profession resists systematizing certain procedures mystifies me. Even more so, the emphasis on social hierarchy is out of the last century. I've always seen the nurses as the NCO's of the hospital -- often more knowledgeable than the wet-behind-the-ears LT's they theoretically answer to... and yet sometimes I feel like I'm going against all tradition and social arrangements to ask them questions about patient handling. It's frustrating, at times.
It's a medieval guild system, with ritualized hazing. Only way to fix that kind of culture is to destroy it- and the medical profession is well on it's way to it's own Fourth Turning.
Mom was an R.N. for over four decades. The war stories are terrifying.
I'm aware of the ritualized hazing, thanks, and trying to fight it... and my career plan is based around knowing what the Fourth Turning is likely to do to hospitals.
I wish I'd been able to get the war stories from my grandma. She was not only an RN, but Chief of Nursing for our local hospital for decades. One of the last things I told her before she died was that I'd been accepted to medical school.
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