Not commenting generally on stereotypes or anything, but I just want to say that some of my classmates and I were having a discussion about this today and about how this was not our experience on surgical services across the board. Many of us have had fantastic experiences with surgical subspecialties, including ENT, ortho, and neurosurgery. Residents were just as overworked, busy, and sometimes brusque, without necessarily being as.....horrible as some of the residents I've encountered on our General Surgery service. And it's not about people being "mean". In fact, one of the biggest pleasant surprises I encountered during third year is realizing that when upperclassmen and SDN students and whatever say "I got yelled at", they often really mean "I was reprimanded". One of those two obviously bothers me a lot less than the other. And there's a difference between someone being "mean" and someone being short because they're busy, and they don't necessarily feel the need to say please and thank you and smile 10x.
I mention that just to give an idea of my baseline, I guess. I've worked entry level jobs before medical school, begin at the lowest point on the totem pole, and have had everything from my "good morning" to my work criticized--it sucks, but I can handle that. And my issues with surgery don't have anything to do with surgery per se (the hours, the standing, the not peeing as often as I'd like, the hierarchy), or the so called "Surgical personality" as much as the attitude that may very well specific to my region, institution, or just a few bad apples. My gripes are more about an almost intentional hostility and, not to repeat myself, but lack of basic decency towards students for no other reason than because well, why not? I'm planning on going into a surgical subspecialty, so I, like all other medical students, grit my teeth and bear it. But as I've gone through different rotations, I can't help but wonder how many medical students have been put off an entire specialty because of these interactions. I've said this a million times before, but, most of our experiences with any specialty are defined by our third year rotations, and our rotations are shaped by our interactions with the people we spend the most time with--residents.
It's hard, and maybe unwise in some respects, to say to yourself "I love this specialty, everyone seems miserable though and treats me like crap, but maybe that won't be me, maybe this won't be my experience, maybe I'll go somewhere where people are nicer". I'm rambling. I just think it doesn't have to be this way.
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Dear Surgery Residents: go %&$# yourselves. Sincerely, MS3
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