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Is it just me, or do the new residents seem more airheaded? - Ancient

Posted: Aug 12, 2012

It seems that each year's batch of residents/students are a little bit more clueless than the previous year's. I just find myself facepalming or giving my monitor that "are you kidding me" look more often. Maybe I'm just getting old. Although I do try to avoid any important exams or surgeries this time of year if I can help it.

No, I agree - midwestmt

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I just wonder how they went to college, passed the MCAT, and graduated from medical school when they cannot even string the proper words together to make a coherent sentence. Makes me shudder to think about the quality of care.

I'm not trying to defend the airhead interns, but - sm

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I worked for a surgeon who couldn't complete a thought to save his life. I'd have to "operate" on his reports just to get them to make sense. He thanked me, BTW, for doing this for him.

On the other hand, he was a truly gifted surgeon, great bedside manner, his patients just loved him.

I try to think of him when I get frustrated with a dictator. It does seem to calm me down a bit.

That used to - be

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what our job was. Doctors used to dictate and we would make it sound right. Now, the MTSOs just want us to be robots and type what the doctor says. They have downgraded what our job so they can pay us less. They don't want us to use our brains, unless it suits them to fail us on an audit. They are not interested in quality, just quantity; the ASR is proof of that. If I type the patient in a report, as I learned to do, I get knocked down, but the ASR types it all day long. I refuse to remove it. I only fix medical words or other stupid words it puts in there and don't give a crap about the rest. When they pay me more to fix the ASR punctuation and putting "the" in,, then I will fix it.

No, I agree - kittykat

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I try to forgive the residents. It is when I get the old timers who change the beginning of a sentence 2-3 times and they you still don't what they are trying to say.

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