Was at a party with a group of friends who are physicians, surgeons, and medical researchers. It struck me: we software types are so fucking arrogant. I was definitely not the smartest person in the room, and yet I could see IT and CS types mocking these people for their relative computer illiteracy. You know, the people who are actually saving lives every day instead of figuring out how to distract (er, engage) and bilk (er, monetize) people.
There are a lot of people who mock others simply because they don't know a domain of knowledge. You can bet that doctors also mock those who don't successfully take care of their health, especially fat diabetics. Anecdotally, I think fat diabetics are the favorite humiliation punching bag for doctors.
Anyways, the issue that stuck out most saliently to me was the cultural expectation placed upon medical staff to work through any issue regardless of personal life, and what must be a tacit management understanding of the situation. Somebody in management screwed up, and now the doctor is left holding the bag, and this doctor unfortunately feels some responsibility to manage the situation. This doctor is frustrated that the anesthesiologist did not make the same sacrifice, and wanted to tend to family.
I don't blame either of them. Kudos to the doctor for holding the bag that management dropped, and congrats for the anesthesiologist who won't submit to exploitive cultural expectations.
> Doctors aren't smart, they're just friendly keeners with something to prove to their helicopter parents.
See, that's what I mean. I wasn't writing about the general population of doctors, I was writing about the specific doctors who were in the room with me, who you so arrogantly dismiss.
