Med Student Tribunal

Attending etiquette laws must be obeyed

[hk]

It’s gone from, “Knock, knock, hi, I’m the new med student!” to “we’re the ones who knock.”

[petelancaster]

Tread carefully, med students. If anyone catches on that you have basic, human needs, you'll be labeled "unprofessional."

[matthewreed]

"We're med students...of COURSE we're overthinking this!" 😂😂😂

[EricaElena]

Literally said "Is there anything else I can help you with?" today and the senior clinician replied "No, you should go home." haha I love that this is just a universal unwritten code

[brianwong]

Med students, when cross-examining your attending, never ask a question to which you do not already know the answer.

[bharathsharma]

Med students everywhere thanking you for raising awareness

[seanchina]

Lmao straight to the point. Can't wait to see the med student justice council bring to court all the specialties.

[KyleRayner]

A couple of months ago, I had a rotation with an M4 who made it his mission to draw attention to my presence and see if I could leave on my behalf every evening. He's a goddamned hero.

[ConankunYT]

7pm "we were just finishing morning rounds" LMAO

[teslaromans]

Truer words have never been spoken. EVERYBODY, literally everybody, knows that “is there something else you need me to do” means “I’m on the verge of going home but I don’t want to give a bad impression so please, as the one with authority, validate that action”

[StephBer]

I love that it's 7pm and the attending had just finished morning rounds. My husband had a massive brain tumor and the neurosurgeon was asked to see him in hospital. We heard all day that the specialist is in the hospital and "will see you soon". He finally saw my hubby at 8pm, by which time hubby had lost all use of the left side of his body. Neurosurgeon then yelled at a doctor that the patient should have been seen earlier! 🙄 Anyway, it all ended well. He was operated on the next day and the baseball sized meningioma was removed. It was benign, thank God.

[YAYGamingYourOwnSenpai]

Just recently happened to me. Attendings logins werent working so she kepted us till 8 pm to type her notes while she was preparing her conference call. And then she had the audacity to call us lazy bc we wanted to go home. “I have a conference that 1000s attendings want to learn from me, and ur missing ur chance” as we are dead tired and didnt learn a single thing.

[vuedoc]

If you think the new generation needs to suffer because you had to and you turned out OK, you in fact did NOT turn out OK.
In addition to being hilarious, your videos are always so thought provoking. The practice of medicine today is nothing like the way it was when I trained 30 years ago, therefore the training itself also needs to adapt to the times, and become more humane.

[jeffreysdavis]

Got labeled unprofessional because I went home sick at the same time they released all the other med students and I had already used my 12 days for the whole year taking care of my wife with ER visits and craniotomy (the day before surgery shelf exam). And since a resident forgot to track attendance they said i wasnt there when all my classmates saw me swaying in the stool on rounds trying to not fall over from being sick... so I got to go to the professionalism review board for missing too many days and get chewed out for making excuses when I literally rounded on patientsmultiple times that year while my wife was in the ER with neurological symptoms

[Bob]

"You don't have the authority" alright doc, you can make the follow up appointments for your discharged patients yourself. And no passing it off for the residents to do either!

[alexbelzer]

every time a med student gets sent home early, an angel gets its wings
every time a med student gets told that there IS something else they can help with, a gene somewhere takes its second hit

[AshlynLeeThatsMe]

"We had just finished morning rounds." At 7pm.
On a Friday.

I'm not in the medical field personally, but I've been hospitalized enough times to understand how real this quote is.

[ItBePatYo]

I'm loving the med student mafia, bro! Keep coming out with the killer videos!

[j.]

I'm Non medical but I went through something similar. Ms Monster kept me working through the day only to dispose majority of my work down the bin at the end of the day, never let me have a lunch break but had hers in front of me while I worked, scoffed at me if I requested a bathroom break, kept insulting me about my looks and finally, wanted me on my feet running around at a conference after I'd already done my 12hrs. Ordered me not to sit down. I was shaking with hunger and fatigue. I sent in my resignation the next day.

[drhandle]

Ah yes, the old "We had to suffer ridiculous workloads/bullying/sexual harrassment/abuse when we were students, so now the next generation should suffer too."

Which is like saying that nobody should ever be treated with antibiotics, because in the past people with infections had to suffer, so subsequent generations should, too.