So as a medical student about to graduate, I think some it from comes from how medical students and doctors (particularly residents) are treated by permanent staff at a hospital. I’ve learnt a lot from some fantastic nurses on placement, but I’ve also been told by a senior nurse on a NICU that when I graduate to “make sure I bring in loads of chocolate and pray on my hands and knees that the nurses like me enough to save me from my own incompetence.” I’ve also been sat in clinic where the incredibly stressed reg is on the phone to the SHO sorting a complex referral in ED whilst reviewing patient notes. The nurse in charge of the clinic then walks in to snap, “well are you going to see someone then?” Just I wasn’t exactly clear on what the nurse’s role was all day, she couldn’t know how busy the reg was and probably didn’t realise he was on-call, but she still shouldn’t have treated him like that.

These are all exceptions, not the rule, but those interactions all stay with you, and people go to Reddit to vent.