Being on my own has allowed me to grow into myself and test the waters to see how different I really am in handling situations. But of course the apple does not fall far from the tree. So over the past year I have been getting myself into situations that have made me question my abilities. I realized that I just stay quiet and take it in for the most part. I don’t know if it is the avoidance factor or whether I feel like it is not worth getting into. Basically whatever the reason is I am a wimp!
So here is the story…
I am working in the clinic these days and everyone who works there has an attitude problem especially one particular nursing assistant…hmm for the sake of confusion we will call her “B”. I believe in being professional with everyone. I don’t care what your job title is I am going to treat you in the same nice manner. So I am working with my attending who is flipping through a patient’s chart and cannot seem to find a particular lab result. She asks me to go to the front desk and ask “B” to print out the lab result. When I ask B for a print out, she tells me without taking her eyes off the computer screen that it should be in the chart. When I tell her that it is not there and that we have looked through it a couple of times, she says in a harsh, demanding tone as if she does not believe me “give me the chart!” So I turn around and go get the chart for her (cuz of course my attending and I are incompetent at looking through papers for a lab result) Anyway she flips through the chart and is in shock that it is actually not there…so she prints it out for me…I go back with the paper and the attending asks me for another set of results...so I go back and apologize saying that the Dr. forgot to ask for the other set of results the first time and would like a copy of those also…she looks at me and says “I’m going to smack you!” I was in shock for a second…I couldn’t believe that this woman just said that out loud in front of everyone…there were other staff members there as well as an entire waiting room filled with patients just staring back at me…I just asked her to print it out and walked away….
I couldn’t believe myself!!! I said nothing!!! Whats wrong with me?? I had actually gotten into worse situations prior to this one and had said nothing….but I couldn’t let this go! this was it!!! I had to stand up for myself!!
So I decided that I was just going to ignore her and not acknowledge her presence (I know!! Wow I am really standing up for myself!!)
My last day there finally arrives and nothing had happened since where I could defend myself against the wicked witch of the east…
Then right at the knick of time an opportunity presents itself…after seeing the last patient I walk up to my attending to say my goodbyes…and while I am talking to her…“B” comes rushing into the office saying I need to talk to u (my attending) about a patient…I turn around and say very firmly “I was here first, you can wait your turn!” She gives me this OMG look and sits down on the chair…then the rest of the med students come in and we get into a conversation about how the rotation was and all that good stuff…”B” gets up from her chair and interrupts again saying “this will only take a second” before she could say another word…I look at her and say “I don’t think you heard me, we are still talking” My attending tells her just give me a couple of min they are about to leave…
VICTORY!! I know its small but baby steps rite???
signed: Macky
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