Tuesday, May 17, 2011

How to tell your attending isn't listening

There was one inpatient rotation I did as a resident where every day there was a different attending rounding on the service with us. Considering it was rehab and most of the patients were pretty stable, I would often get the feeling that the attendings weren't listening to our presentations....




(Speaking of Journey, didn't you just know James Durbin was going to get voted off Idol when he sang Don't Stop Believing? He couldn't hope to top the Glee version and his version just sounded karaoke. Obviously he wasn't in it to win it.)
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  1. HavenMay 17, 2011 at 5:31 AM

    Oh my. I've never seen Glee or American Idol. Can either version really beat the original?

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  2. FizzyMay 17, 2011 at 5:45 AM

    I love the Glee version of that song... when I hear it, I'm always surprised by how much I like it. The original is pretty great too though :)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WxPyUzWSPA

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  3. kate sweetenMay 17, 2011 at 10:22 AM

    I feel like that all the time in clinic...I tell them things that are vitally important to the office, clinic or their patients and they just stare at me blankly and then go "wait...what?"

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  4. AnonymousMay 17, 2011 at 3:36 PM

    Glee - bleargh.

    I'm also a big fan of the attendings who will ask you a question about your patient, before interrupting you after 2 seconds to answer the question they already knew the answer too.

    Sometimes, I think they just like to make us dance.

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  5. DissectorMay 17, 2011 at 3:37 PM

    It's SO HARD being an attending... as a paediatrician there's only so many variations of bronchiolitis, croup, gastro, asthma you can listen to before your mind starts wandering. There have definitely been occasions where I have been dreaming of a beach in Thailand when all I hear is the resident saying ".... so, what do you think those results mean?"

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  6. JacobMay 18, 2011 at 8:04 PM

    On my neurology rotation, I had one attending that was the personification of distracted. During table rounds, he would periodically just stand up and leave the room. This led to some awkward silences among the students and residents and some interesting theories as to where he was going. After several minutes, he would return and apparently had forgotten that we had ever talked about a patient. Other times, he would stop you in mid-sentence with a completely off-the-wall comment about something unrelated. Of course, this is the same attending who, for some reason, had multiple pocket watches in both pockets. We finally postulated that he was actually a time-traveler and needed the extra pocket watches to keep things straight. We also used this theory to explain why he would often run into walls while we were on rounds and slap unsuspecting students with his alien hand. Looking back, I'm thinking we should have had him evaluated for CVA.

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  7. AnonymousMay 19, 2011 at 11:01 AM

    He totally wasn't in it to win it! Kinda miss him though because Scotty and Lauren are boring to the max.

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