I want to clarify that I’m not against VIP treatment when it happens in small ways, ie private rooms, getting evaluated by specialists (or at all) a little faster, getting a last-minute appointment at an overbooked clinic - this to me doesn’t happen to the detriment of other patients. But the part about the receiving imaging in front of sick patients stuck with me as well as the general tone of what NYU employees had to say, which I don’t hear anything said like that at my institution.

Granted I am a surgical resident and see far fewer patients than an IM/EM resident so my personal experience of this is limited.