Your Team
This team is your team. Let them work for you. So many patients refuse to see students and residents. What a huge mistake! There is plenty of evidence to suggest that you might get better care at a teaching hospital. It’s not because the attending (boss) doctor at the university/teaching medical center knows so much more than somebody else at the community hospital (where they too may have residents). Rather, it’s because you have so many people taking care of you! Your little 25 year-old med student may be the person who knows your case best. Shit, they might be the only one who got any sleep last night. Try to let them take care of you.
In no way am I saying you should let a med student do complicated procedures. If you’re headed to surgery, make sure you know who’s on the team and who is doing the surgery! Unless you are in rural Africa (and then you’ve got other problems) you will not have a med student doing surgery on you. The chief resident, however, might be taking care of you. Try your best not to insult the resident by calling him or her a student.
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