..,to want to slap/shake the SHO & Reg today?

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Firstly, my hospital are (generally) great :)

Secondly, I realise it's August...

However, I feel that if an SHO and Reg feel the need to engage in alpha behaviour/loud discussion about whether a patient is fit for surgery, whilst consistently misinterpreting the facts*, they might be better doing so where aforesaid patient cannot hear them.

Also, if you have a competent patient who has had major surgery and multiple admissions over the years, but happens to be disabled (getting themselves to the hospital and having two degrees in a medical area may be a small clue), you may want to spend time explaining the proedure to them, rather than explaining in words of one syllable and baby talk what you mean by words such as 'reg' and 'decay', and then when they ask about nerve damage telling them to ask at the (unnecessary) pre-op assessment...

AIBU to expect adequate treatment outside of my main condition's area? (given local hospital is one of 6/7 centres in the country for that condition).

This has left me boiling mad, but I don't feel complaints have the desired effect.

*If the history is medically complex to the extent that you both don't understand, it might be an idea to listen to the patient when they suggest people within your hospital that you might contact...the patient could have solved your loud arguement about what good would an ECG do?

sorry can't add as not a medical person but my friend is and she tells me lots of stories (never very good and downright shocking at times!) The forget you are a person most of the time...

YABU.....

For not actually slapping and shaking them!

This is one of my pet hates; medics being patronising and talking about the patient as if they aren't there. This is especially so when the patient is not only completely awake, aware and competent of thought, but probably knows as much about their own condition as an SHO or SpR! (They're STs and FTs now, in most hospitals, but still...).

YANBU. I'd have got cross and told them, in no uncertain terms.

You should tell them every time, it's a learning curve of which you could very easily kick them over.
Could you write them a letter each with an appraisal of their 'work' that day, with a 'could do better' at the bottom.

YANBU

ExDH is a doctor and in his relatively junior days in the hospital he was often come home fuming and incredulous at how appalling one or two of the other docs were. Sometimes he was ask me what I would do in a situation (I guess because it was SO obvious, as I have no experience in this area!) and then he would tell me what the idiot of the day actually did. I cannot remember specifics now but I was often .

Nurses could sort them out quite well, from what I rememeber...

Do complain, as nicely as you can, they are learning and, well, need to learn.

Get off MN and write that lttr that mama12 suggestd.

Thanks all!

Nice to know I'm not BU.

It's odd as when I was doing my MSc, friends were excitedly embarking on F1/FY1 etc., but now I've moved doctors introduce themselves (clinically and academically) as SHO/SpR/Registrar.

The best explanation was the one surrounding he letter...apparently it goes upstairs to the medical secretaries, they type it, but it takes some time for this to happen so I mustn't be impatient...

The closest medical secretary to me during the day is two feet (glad I now know what they do), closest SpR is four feet (never heard her speak like that, even when getting dodgy calls on-call)...