Dealing with NPs

Why because I don’t just put my head in the sand while going through this hypocritical abusive career path? If I ask a question during third year rotations I’m told “at your level you should know this” “why don’t you look it up and present on it tomorrow” that’s if you don’t just get yelled out and straight up told you are a disgrace of a human being and the most retarded person they have ever seen. We had a chief of cardiology have to stop having his NP present during rounds with the medical students/residents/fellows because he would scream like a banshee at all of us and even make his fellows cry and threaten to quit but his NP he would be all sweet to her even though she knew less than me. Everyone reported and complained and the solution they came up with was to just take away the NP during rounds so the hypocrisy wouldn’t so obvious. They don’t actually give a shit about the abuse. I have seen resident/fellows run out the OR crying. I have seen one quit on the spot and never come back. I have dealt with endless passive aggression. Attendings won’t even allow shooting the breeze during down time the day after a Super Bowl. They don’t want you to think for a second you are a human being and not a medical student that doesn’t even deserve to talk to them. I have seen NP/PAs and NP/PA students interrupt rounds, talk inappropriately in the same workrooms as us, be completely incompetent and the attendings always ignored it and treat them well. They will shoot the breeze with the 21 BSN/NP combined program student. Fuck all the academic doctors. Only pathologists are chill.

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