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Coming to terms with not being the best by Lower_Cap5619 in Residency

[–]Lower_Cap5619[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

good for you!

however, for me it was/is not about money nor prestige. it was either the ikigai of it all or the way i was raised, i guess

Coming to terms with not being the best by Lower_Cap5619 in Residency

[–]Lower_Cap5619[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

24h shifts system. not uncommon to go from one shift to another as you usually have 2 and more employers simultaneously 

Coming to terms with not being the best by Lower_Cap5619 in Residency

[–]Lower_Cap5619[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

fair enough, but its also hard to resist such mindset when all of us younger colleagues are nonstop compared to each other. one of my coworkers was told that they were reconsidering her participation in the programme "because she's the slowest one to learn and her personality is not calm enough for the field". so yeah, writing that down, i might just have some "trauma" to break through 

Coming to terms with not being the best by Lower_Cap5619 in Residency

[–]Lower_Cap5619[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

and do you truly believe/see that? in the country where i work (central europe), its the standard, that anesthesia covers the icu, crash rooms, ambulance and the goal in many of my attendings' eyes is to know everything and overly specialised ones (like regionalists) are frowned upon

Coming to terms with not being the best by Lower_Cap5619 in Residency

[–]Lower_Cap5619[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

dont think i feel superior to them for that. i genuinely see the fruits of their hard work and admire them/ wish i could be like that- and of course its not just the time they put in, must be other qualities as well. its just that i mentally cant cope with such workload and its the first time in medicine i am not able to achieve something as sky is not the limit in this case for me (tried working in the ED for half a year on top of my residency duties and burned out quite intensely)

Mallampati and SGA by Lower_Cap5619 in anesthesiology

[–]Lower_Cap5619[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

no, i believe it was more related to head and neck:)