Chaotic Neutral Med Resident

Internal Medicine PGY1 (US) - My aesthetic is loose printer paper, scribbling on post-it notes, having ten windows open on my laptop, screaming into the void, and over-steeped tea.

[melodramas]

THE PITT 1.15 — 9:00 P.M.

[moldavite]

are we sure the only way out is through? like. are we sure we can't just. go around

[chasingmywhitecoat-deactivated2]

The negativity surrounding doctors

every now and then I make the mistake of reading comments online under posts that have even the tiniest thing to do with medicine

it’s always one and the same thing about how doctors are parasites and all they ever want is more money and how they don’t listen to patients and they’re all filthy rich and don’t get me started on the shit that antivaxxers still spew out

I can only speak for my country, but doctors are not the enemy. There’s plenty of asshole doctors, no doubt about it. But the vast, VAST majority are good natured people who genuinely give a shit about their patients and are doing their best in a system that only ever works against them.

So who should you really be upset with? Who is really to blame that the wait times are long and that your own pay is shit and that the doctor doesn’t have time to sit with you and listen to you properly without having to work overtime and/or keeping other patients waiting and/or miss out on time with their own family and life?

Some doctors are bad doctors, hell, some are even bad people. Though the bad ones were maybe good before they had to sacrifice a little bit more than they thought they would have to and turned bitter and exhausted when that sacrifice gave very little in return and was often sprinkled with ungratefulness, spite or even abuse.

Because the enemy here is the system. For both the doctor and the patient.

So if your doc is being an asshat and genuinely doing an objectively bad job at treating you, I’m really sorry about that and I hope you can get someone better.

But the majority of healthcare folks are really doing their best for you and have sacrificed a lot to be there and keep trying, even though the system keeps fucking them over.

[heardatmedschool]

Neurologist: Come on, it’s easy, you only have to think a bit.

Intern: Doc, you are putting too much faith in my poor, fried brain.

[chaotic-neutral-medstudent]

Friend: do you want to go to the lake this weekend

Me: *flashback to learning about Naegleria fowleri*

Me: umm... I'll pass

[biolegend]

It’s over. Killer T-Cell has the high ground.

[chaotic-neutral-medstudent]

if orthro are the jocks, are internists the band kids?

[vivienvalentino]

[chaotic-neutral-medstudent]

the American medical system is so incredibly fucked up I cannot even begin to describe it.

[an-anxious-bowl-of-petunias]

I’m so sorry! I didn’t see your email *definitely saw the email*

[eclipperton]

Ah yes, the general internal medicine boards, where they test such knowledge as *opens to MKSAP page 126* how to manage small pox exposure in a returning soldier in the event of bioterrorism ...

[cobalt-sable]

[sideraclara]

do u ever feel like ur pulling an academic icarus flying too close to your deadlines on wings of deeply flawed time management

[heardatmedschool]

Doctor: How do you correct chronic or undetermined hyponatremia in a stable patient?

Resident: Des~pa~cito🎶

[chaotic-neutral-medstudent]

Everyone has these beautiful aesthetic study study setups while I’m out here sitting on my floor surrounded by printer papers that are covered in illegible notes like I’m setting up some arcane summoning ritual. 

[sleep-safe]

*banging metal objects together*

if your patients don't understand what you tell them, you are not an adequate or effective healthcare provider !!!

[doktorwhat]

Fuck neuroanatomy