Friday, December 24, 2010

Boundary issues

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  1. I have had med students do all four of those things to me. Well, except for the earrings bit, cuz I don't wear earrings.

    Once a med student stood over me, watching me write an EMG report, because, "OMG, I never saw a real EMG report before!!!!"

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  2. Oh dear. I definitely watch people write notes... you see, I'm a 1st year and am still learning how to write notes, so it's super beneficial to see how it's done! Still, maybe I'd better back off.
    I have, however, never followed a preceptor into the bathroom or added them to FB, however.

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  3. Oops, subtract that last however.

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  4. I'm pretty sure everyone follows their resident into the bathroom at least once.

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  5. Fizzy- it discourages them if you then test the EMG machine on them. Especially if the needle is the same one you just used on a patient.

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  6. Yep, guilty of following the resident to the bathroom. However in my defense, she never told me where she was going, and would yell at me if I wasn't right there when she wanted me for something. Sometimes you just can't win.

    And also guilty of friending residents on fb. Only a couple of them that I actually became friends with outside of the hospital too, though.

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  7. I had a preceptor add me.....felt a little awkward.

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  8. Ha ha!

    Okay, now I might be (might be) guilty of three of those, but I never once followed a resident into the bathroom...I just had to go too.

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  9. What happens if a resident sends you a friend request on facebook?

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  10. LOL.
    Earrings: nope
    Note taking: nope
    Loo walks: almost
    FB: not in a million years.

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  11. To be fair, I once had a preceptor walk into the bathroom, and when I DIDN'T follow him, he turned around and said, "well, come on. I have something to show you." Mind you, he is a male and I am a female. . . .it turned out there was a sign in the bathroom that he wanted to show me. Nerve-wracking moment, I didn't know where things were going for a second. Point is, it's not just students with the boundary problem.

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