trashed
i checked if he was on call on my next schedule. i planned to call off if he was. yes, i will waste my paid leave just to get away from him! he thinks he is God! man!
i am so mad.
not because he sounded like he didn’t know what to do with the issue i have been paging him about. not that.
he was so rude i felt like strangling him.
i hate to say this, but what is so wrong with admitting he didn’t know what to do? why did he have to be rude and imply i was being inefficient by calling him and doing what i was supposed to do?
this early, i already feel sorry for his future patients as an attending. seriously, if he could be this arrogant as an intern, one can only imagine the endless possibilities of his future actions as a certified jerk.
i’ll spare you the boring annoying details, so you have to pardon the early bad language. i just have to get it out of my system. or else, i might not be able to sleep. yet i have to, because i still have one more night to complete my three nights this week.
dr. K, i hope you change.
if not, i hope i never see you again.


By leaving the name blank, we get to participate with our own dreadful encounters.
Comment by Angie — April 24, 2008 @ 9:35 am
We’ve all known someone like this. Thanks for uniting us in this.
I hope he gets the wake-up call. I’m sure you’re not the only one calling.
Comment by Veronica — April 24, 2008 @ 3:19 pm
Some people are just Buttheads. What are ya gonna do?
Comment by Neumed — April 25, 2008 @ 8:34 am
Some people are just Buttheads. Whatcha gonna do?
Comment by Neumed — April 25, 2008 @ 8:45 am
Sorry for the double post. The first one acted like it didn’t go through.
Comment by Neumed — April 25, 2008 @ 8:48 am
Awww! I’m sorry. Some mean, arrogant doctors need the strong pimp hand of a nurse applied. It might do them some good.
Comment by Scott — April 25, 2008 @ 9:28 am
These are the kind of folks who get the massive wake up call when it’s their turn to be whisked by ambulance to the ER in the middle of the night.
Onehealthpro
Comment by Onehealthpro — April 26, 2008 @ 5:24 am
May:
This post reminds me of a specialist I had to page on the day his “team” had a big game and he refused to come in to write orders so this patient could be taken care of by another department.
The problem was the patient had the audacity to be admitted on a Friday night and no one could reach him.
Thankfully, the RN in the other department paged him after he reamed me a new one and reminded him that all her cohorts were on call the next day and they were going to be paid double time for coming in for any treatments. Said patient got his orders and his treatment the same day once after that.
He never said a cross thing to me again, though, when I saw him on our unit. Methinks the other RN reamed HIM a new one after my report.
Gotta love specialists…they’re either really good or really pains in the rear!
Comment by RehabRN — April 27, 2008 @ 6:13 am
Honestly doctors intimidate me whenever they’re around. Not all of them are arrogant but they act as if nurse’s are just their personal slaves who do their bidding. They don’t remember that Nurses are professionals too and that we are not under doctors but we work along-sides them… well that’s what I’ve learned from my CI.
Comment by edgar — April 28, 2008 @ 7:45 am
I had one who used to swear at nurses when this happened…
that was until he ran into E…
She might be small but she was huge that day…
Shes the ward hero and ALL of the nursing staff and most of the Drs in the hospital have heard how she stood there and chewed out the Scottish Dr From Hell like he was a dust bunny under the bed…
He won’t screw with the nursing staff on the 8th floor again… and the rest of the RN’s now have the courage to deal with the little upstart in a manner he understands.
The Drs are pleased…
He was making them all look bad!!
Go E!!!
You’re my hero!!!
Good things come in small packages…
So does Poison!!!
Comment by Kj — May 1, 2008 @ 3:01 pm