May 19
One of our pulm/crit fellows said that if a resident isn’t up to snuff, they just freeze them out and take over their work. They said they usually do this to medicine interns on nights. And like…what the fuck man. First of all, they’re an intern, of course they don’t know that much about the MICU. You have to teach them, which you apparently aren’t interested in doing. Second, I’ve long felt that our MICU has zero team cohesion, and hearing a fellow say they have no interest in teaching us either is a blow. Our job in the MICU is just to write notes and place orders. Eternal scut monkey. It’s so demoralizing.
#I love the medicine of the ICU but jesus christ do I hate the structure of ours#you are just constantly taking shit from everyone#APPs dump work on you#EM residents take your procedures#and the fellows apparently don’t think you’re worth teaching#in the meantime you have to do all the actual medicine and unglamorous work#there’s supposedly no seniors but someone needs to make sure the intern called that ID consult#and it’s not gonna be the fellow#no one wants to write the H&P so it’ll be you#no one wants the late admission so it goes to you#you get driven into the ground#and the fellow still thinks it’s beneath them to teach you#yeah I don’t feel mad about this at all#medicine#residency#pulm crit#medblr#my content#my text posts