My favorite gunner

When I was a third year med student, I worked in the ICU with Jake, one of our class's favorite gunners

Although it was early in the year, Jake already had quite a reputation for stealing procedures and just generally being a huge suck up. He also treated other students like they were beneath him and actually scutted them out. He arranged to have a specific attending on medicine that he knew really liked him, and then he'd position his lips right by the attending's ass at all times.

On one occasion, Jake had the nerve to yell at me because I didn't come get him to tell him that we were going to the radiology room for rounds. In fact, I did come get him and tell him that the attending had arrived. I only didn't come get him a second time to say that rounds were officially starting (like five minutes later). I wasn't his goddamn secretary.

A week into the rotation, we got a new attending, Dr. Barb. Dr. Barb did not like Jake. She vehemently did not like Jake. She yelled at him for getting an ABG when she specifically told him not to ("weren't you standing right there when I said that?") and became furious when he neglected to report a drop in his patient's O2 sats.

Jake's excuse (to me, not to her) was that he was at some pulmonary conference all afternoon, discussing that very same patient.

Me: "Hey, wouldn't it have been ironic if your patient died while you were discussing him at that conference?"

Jake: "Yes. It would have been ironic."

At the end of the rotation, Jake cornered me and said that he thought we should conspire not to give Dr. Barb our evaluation forms. He said if I gave in my eval, he had to give in his. This sounded like a really dumb idea to me.

But Jake was really persistent. He said, "Right now I have like high, high honors and her evaluation would knock me down to... I don't know what." He went as far as to say that if he had to hand in his eval, he "would be pissed." I finally said that I would think about it, just to get away from him.

We ended up handing in our evals. I later heard that because of Jake, Dr. Barb banned med students from presenting patients. I also heard that Jake passed by her while she was conducting rounds and she visibly shuddered and said, "I hate that kid."