'I will update you every possible moment': Squadron of interns bombard senior doctor with dozens of phone calls after he calls them 'lazy'

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    Gesture - 'We decided the best way to get back at him was obeying him'
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    Font - You want everything to be on time, then I will update to you every possible moment. M OC TL,DR at the bottom When I was an intern doing my general surgery rotation, I started having problems with a man I will call Dr. Dino, an anesthesiologist that had been around in our hospital since the Jurassic period and refused to retire for some unknow reason. For context, I did my practices in a small-town hospital that didn't do a lot of surgical procedures, and about 80% of those were low-level
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    Font - What was the problem then? Dr.Dino hated doing his work. The only way he would not complain about surgeries was if they were done before 10 am and if he received a 1-hour notice. In any other scenario, he would star complaining that us the interns (basically the main "administrative" workforce in that place) were too lazy, too slow, and spent our time doing nothing. The one thing he
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    Font - hated the most was waking up at night, as he had this crazy theory that every night procedure was done late only because an intern had screwed up during the day. He called us the worst group he ever had (I later found out he said the same of every new group of interns) and sent dozens of complains to our general coordinator, who in turn would reprimand us constantly.
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    Font - One day he reached to our dean's office because according to him, I have delayed a patient's procedure for 10 hours because I was not paying attention to the ER referrals. While it was true that the patient had arrived in the early morning, he had been left in observation by the ER unit doctors.
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    Font - They were only able to reevaluate him in the afternoon (7 pm) because they were full of work that day, and that was the moment I got their referral. Taking into account the time it took me to check his medical record, present it to the surgeon and do the paperwork, and for the nurses to take him to the OR, the guy was starting his surgery at 9 pm.
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    Font - The only thing that saved me from being expelled where the time stamps on the medical record that proved I was right. When Dr. Dino saw he didn't win the round by getting me in trouble, he forced our coordinator to implement a rule that stated we had to report to Dr. Dino every possible surgical patient's process so that he could check if we were doing our job right.
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    Font - We were all so tired of this grandpa's bulls, we decided the best way to get back at him was obeying him to the inch. After that day, we would take any stomachache with a pain scale >7 and a mild abdominal defense as a possible case and did an hourly update until the patient was intervened or was given a different diagnosis by one of the doctors.
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    Font - We also stopped waiting for referrals and actively searched for the cases in the ER at any free time we had. Another detail was that we were only allowed to use the "official" unit's cellphones (Nokia 2000 types that could barely made calls), meaning no text messages and no silencing, because any of our reports could be a real emergency.
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    Font - The result of our system? He was receiving an average of 30-50 calls day and night with our updates, meaning he got interrupted more and slept less than before. After 4- 5 shifts like this, he lifted his stupid rule and we never heard another one of his complains.
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    Font - TL,DR: A doctor forced us to constantly update him on patients because he thought we were lazy and not doing our work, he repents after being blasted with phone calls every moment of the day.
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    Gesture - SumoNinja17 Foiled with his own medicine. (hard pill to swallow?)
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    Gesture - Dracorr What a quack.
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    Font - Cfwydirk +4 An anesthesiologist who likes to play games foiled by an intern who plays games at the next level! Bravo!
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    Font - Shaagriel Only way to deal with impossibly obnoxious old people is to do whatever they want in the most obnoxious way possible Imao
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    Vertebrate - bhambrewer +2. This was delicious

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