Reactionary

This is about work. maybe I should have posted it on the blog I made for work, but I won’t. I want it to be more humorous and less stressed.So I’ll put it here.

I’m frustrated and becoming moreso. No one likes general surgery of the newer people. The only one who’s been there for less than five years who likes working in that service is me. Me. Me alone. And it’s not because I had good learning experiences in there. I get along with most of the surgeons now but that didn’t happen for a long time. I like the straightforwardness and yet the bigness of the cases. I like how it’s the toughest. If you make it there, you’ll make it anywhere. But I like it in spite of the orientation I got in there. I like it in spite of the nurses who work in it. In spite of the horrible precepting job they did of teaching me and everyone else since and a few years before. No one taught me anything. They stand by and watch you fail. And they like it like that. So what did I do, I chose to circulate for a long time and I watched and I memorized the cases and surgeons until i had it down and could do it by rote and then I figured it out until it made sense. This is far too much effort for someone to put into their own orientation. I have a good visual memory but no one should have it come to that.

And now, I have to stand by and watch them do it to the new bunch. I have tried and helped in any way I can but they’re not letting me precept anyone and I don’t want to look like I’m interfering. I have been there 2.5 years. I know these cases. I can teach the new bunch to be great scrub people, better than 90% of the people who work there already. But it’s not being allowed. And it’s not right. I stop by and check on people. I’ll tell then what to use next. I’ll tell them the ins and outs of who uses what and why. I’ll check their tables and mayos and give them the pointers I’ve developed for myself.

No one likes general surgery and that it’s being allowed to happen just to make the old people feel good about themselves is making me furious. They’re about to hire on another general surgeon which takes them up to 9 regulars which makes them the biggest service. What do people think they’re accomplishing by giving people such a hard time that they won’t work with them once they get off orientation? It’s really getting to me. I looked at the assignment board for tomorrow and I see that what was suggested for teaching one of the new, very young girls was ignored. Again. And then they wonder why people quit.

Posted on May 15th, 2007 under Life •  Print •  Email • RSS 2.0 feed • Leave a response, or trackback