Medical School Reveals You

"doctors are assholes." there is simply no sense in sugarcoating what i'd often hear within the hallowed halls of a nurses' stations' corridors.

but, can we really blame them?

it's been more than a year since my last post and now i can finally say that i have successfully penetrated the ranks and files of the MDs themselves. i am now a junior intern. it's not much. but it's also not nothing.

just like any other profession, there are different personalities involved and not one specific personality can ever lay claim to be the stereotype of what a doctor is. still, i would to state a little observation of mine.

ngayon pa lang, lumalabas na ang mga ugali ng mga tao.

you see, i didn't know it then but medical schools doesn't change you. it simply reveals you. people have every right to change which is why i also believe there is some truth about the ability to change into something better or worst. but i also believe that there are certain limits of "change" that our personalities can take. this is why it all just conveniently falls into the whole reveals you thing.

i'd like to recall what happened to me a few months ago as a junior intern rotating in family medicine. we were at the emergency room and attending to the (usually) dozens of medico-legal cases which automatically are surgical cases.

one of the most colorful hospitals i have ever seen.

after the residents had already decked the patient in the surgical service, i did what was supposed to be done and brought some of the patients to the opposite side of the room. that's when the first bout with the personality happened.

one of the staff who was on duty there told me, "ang dami naman niyang binibigay niyo sa amin! surgical ba talaga ang mga yan?!!" this went on probably the whole night.

i don't know about you but i really found it very arrogant for that someone to say that. i mean, why say that? is it even necessary? we only do what we're supposed to do. and frankly, wala sa lugar.

magkakalevel lang naman kami. nanggaganun na?

the easiest thing to say is that probably that person was stressed. but is that an excuse? does that justify the attitude?

i believe it doesn't. we are junior interns. we take the patients as they are. we can't really choose our patients, especially in the emergency department.

as far as the whole personality thing goes, there are again assholes in all professions. it's just that medicine seems to make some of us believe it's more okay for us to be assholes than normal.

no, it isn't.