those rumors are true....

Before starting medical school, i heard the stories about attending physicians grilling med students, the sexual harassment that goes down in the OR, and the caddy drama that goes on around the nurses station. In the world of hospital medicine there are two different worlds, and one of them has nothing at all to do with patient care...

For the past few weeks i have been speaking to some fellow female classmates also on rotations in different hospitals to find out what types of experiences they are having working with their male attendings....and it definitely has been getting a little interesting.

Here are just a few of the stories that i have heard in the last week...

- my attending while in the OR mentioned to me, that "because you are a smart, bright and driven woman, you are going to have a hard time getting married. But on the bright side, you will never get divorced" its nice that a surgeon has taken the time to find a silver lining in my love life.... he also mentioned that in order for me to find a man i should try and dumb myself down....instead i am hoping to find a man that isn't so insecure about his position in life...if i don't find one, than i will be glad i decided not settle for less than i deserve...

- a friend while on a peds rotation at a childrens hospital, was standing at the nurses station with another med student, when her attending comes up from behind..smacks her ass and gives her an order to complete in the same breath..."we need to cancel the clindamycin and start on PO antibiotics" ...i am sure that there are better ways of getting a students attention without subjecting her to sexual harassment. Esp because the student was caught so off guard she completely forgot to write the order in the first place...so here is an example of how sexual harassment can directly affect patient care...

- another friend of mine happened to be wearing a button down shirt, and about halfway through the day noticed that a lot of the male attendings were paying more attention to her than normal, and even smiling at her in the halls, and elevator....finally she ran into another classmate who told her that the top 3 buttons had come undone on her shirt!! she figured it had been about 3 hours before someone had told her about the fact her shirt was totally open, and she had no camisole on that day either...


- unfortunately there is a classmate of ours giving the rest of the women in the class a bad reputation....there is a girl who has decided to cross the line of appropriate behavior with her attending....lets just say the story line for McDreamy and Meredith didn't come from thin air....

Anyways, still loving rotation, and still making a fool of myself on a daily basis, but i think i am learning and getting better too. In the last few days, there have been over a dozen babies born, and about 5 ectopic pregnancies....so do the ectopic cancel out the new babies and make the net total for the week 7 babies??? or does baby math not work the same way....more questions to ponder....

my attending also used an old joke the other day during morning sign out.....the night before we had delivered a baby that had a fetal anomaly, and had been born with a short femur on one side.....so in morning sign out he mentioned that the parents should probably name the baby girl, Ilene!! (pronounced I - Lean) for about the next 20 minutes we could barely contain the laughter. For some reason at the time i had never heard that joke be so amusing....

not sure if i mentioned earlier how the service OB always gets the crazy patients....well yesterday was no exception....we had a G7 P6016 give birth vaginally to a 9lb 7oz baby...here is the interesting twist to the story, we were given explicit instruction not to tell the husband about the other pregnancies because he thinks its her first baby.....she married a man and he doesn't know that she has 5 other children in another country (only in south florida), so she ended up pushing a 9lb baby out of her vagina in just 2 pushes, not to mention there was no vaginal tearing.....that is def what happens in a nulliparous women (first pregnancy) JUST KIDDING, plus if anyone actually looked at her vagina can see that she has pushed multiple children out of her vagina...maybe he is truly living up to the stereotype about black guys, and he actually could not feel the difference....

well those are all the stories i have for you tonight!! more next week!