My Advice to You

It will start as a minor curiosity. Maybe a student will seem slightly too close to the resident on your team. When the grades are posted you'll wonder why you didn't get honors but he did. You might wallow for a few days. Make an off-handed comment to your fellow students. Then you'll let it go, and move on. Or so you think. Until during surgery when the scrub nurse rips into you to make a point to the rest of your peers. And then the surgeon does the same to her in the operating room. There will be other times. During residency you will roll your eyes when you realize your co-intern is sick again, and you're up for all the admissions. You will curse the medical student who created the cockeyed explanation and scared the heck out of the frightened social admit in room 5. You might not yell. You might not lose your cool. But rage will boil over from time to time. You may let it loose on the radiology tech who is refusing to get up in the middle of the night and do your stat study. Your path will continue even after you are done with training. There will always be plenty of culprits. The secretary who double booked your over packed schedule. The prior authorization phone tree that will waste the precious moments you could be spending with your children. The paranoid anxious patient who will put it off all day, and show up to the emergency room at midnight and awake you from a de...
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