I am a medical student. I am well aware of that fact. I am about half way through my third year. I realize and understand I have not graduated from medical school, do not yet have the initials MD after my name, and am in no position of authority or power.
So stop trying to put me in my place.
I know where my place is, thank you very much. I do not need someone to remind me. Believe it or not, you don't get into med school without the ability to remember fairly simple, basic facts. So if you again feel the need to put me in my place or remind me that I am still a student I give you one final warning.
Shut your mouth. 'Cause I don't think you want me to help with that.
Last week the doctor I work with/for this year (doing research) asked me to assist with a study that his nurse simply is doing nothing. She is a worthless employee. I make no judgments as to her as a human being, but as far as carrying out her job she isn't worth the air she breathes. But now she is pissed. Pissed that her boss knows she can't do her job (why he doesn't just fire her sorry butt is beyond me). Pissed that he had to come to a student to get it done. Pissed that I actually know what I am doing.
Unlike her.
And so, every time she sees me she feels the need to make some condescending comment. I put together a spreadsheet to keep track of the patients we have enrolled in the study. I made it on my laptop then sent it to my the boss' computer and saved it there for him. Just like he asked me to. As I leave she asks where the file is and I tell her: Right where it is supposed to be. She responds with some idiotic comment about how she can't work on it on his computer (it was never designed for her to work on, just him and me), and that she wants it on hers. You know, her computer she has been sitting in front of all day. The one in the next room to the one I was working on. Instead of just asking me to send it to her as well (she was there when the Doc told me to put it on his computer), she decides to wait until I have logged out, packed my laptop up and am heading out the door. Great timing.
Today, after watching me work with patients all day in clinic, she tells me of something we need to do but haven't been doing. So why not just mention that yesterday? But I actually knew of the detail she was going to mention and had taken care of it. So after her snide remarks I simply looked at her and said "I knew that. I already did it".
Passive/aggressive to the max, she seems determined to remind me I am the student and she the nurse (ignoring the fact that I have about 3-4 more years of education under my belt than she does). Apparently she doesn't think I can handle this study, telling me yesterday that she hoped I was prepared to give up my life. I reminded her that that is what med school was about, so I figured I could handle it, even if she couldn't.
I am going to lose it. I had to just walk away to day as visions of beatings danced through my head.
*Whew* Big, deep breath man. Big, deep breath.