Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 larry 2/4/84; site hlwpc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!mhuxm!mhuxi!mhuxh!hlexa!hlwpc!cb From: cb@hlwpc.UUCP (Carl Blesch) Newsgroups: net.kids Subject: Re: Medical releases Message-ID: <351@hlwpc.UUCP> Date: Mon, 17-Sep-84 09:34:48 EDT Article-I.D.: hlwpc.351 Posted: Mon Sep 17 09:34:48 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 04:17:36 EDT References: <154@dcdwest.UUCP> <242@callan.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Short Hills, NJ Lines: 30 >Personally, I don't trust doctors and their judgement; >I noticed some time ago that I am smarter than most of them >(that's not a brag, it's a putdown). >Geoff Kuenning I was part of a group discussion the other day on people in "fast track" careers -- what do they sacrifice, what is the price of their high achievement, etc. etc. etc. An M.D. in the crowd spoke up about the "culturizing" process of doctors. She said that there's this "barbaric" ritual in your residency known as rounds. It's where four or five residents follow the attending physician around while he visits patients. She said that the residents who spoke up quickly and forcefully every time were regarded as the fast-trackers, the brilliant ones, the ones who would succeed, even though they sometimes spouted off incorrect or inadvisable information. The residents who said, "I'd have to think about that problem before I act," or "I'd want to investigate in a couple of journals before using that treatment" were considered indecisive, less competent, "slow," etc. Sorry if I've slandered any net.MDs (are there any MDs who read the net?), but this story seems to correlate to my perception of reality as a medical consumer! (I know . . . let's move this discussion to net.med!) Carl Blesch