Like many negative stereotypes, there is a grain of truth to this, which is that all med reges are heartless, uncompassionate bastards focused on their exams and having as few patients on their service as possible. THE ONLY GOOD ADMISSION...
What's interesting is that consultant general physicians (the metamorphic product of a med reg) have a diverse range of personalities, interests, clinical approaches, and degree of looking like Magnum, P.I. - my current consultant is towards the high end of the scale on that one. I'm not sure why this transition occurs. Is it the long hours and immense workload being a gen med reg involves, which seems to melt away once you get out of the training programme? Is it the sort of person who goes into physician training? Do they eventually learn to love (on the whole)?
(This post brought to you by exhaustion after 11 hours on take today - how will I survive as an intern?!)
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Dinusha :: Friday, July 3rd
Hm. I haven't found regs to be that bad. Well. Actually, that sounds like my surgery reg, but in all my other rotations, the reg seems to stand out as the only guy on the team who actually gives a damn about the patient. Whereas the consultant just doesn't have the time, and the resident just sees them as the next pile of paperwork. Yeesh 11 hours!
