Dr. Oreh 💫Watching Gundam ZZ✨

Just Stand There and Take It: During my internship in vascular surgery, before a vein procedure I had to mark the veins on the patient’s legs. The resident and chief resident came with me and watched—because they knew the attending was a lunatic. I marked the veins like railroad tracks with a marker (a line on each side of the vein). They didn’t watch me very closely, because I was only supposed to follow the vein with a single line. What did O know! I was just an intern. In the operating room it was just me and the attending. He couldn’t find the vein. He became irate, and the expletives flew. He reduced me to the size of a mosquito. I remember him calling me a POS, and terms like “monkey ass” and “gorilla” being thrown around. There’s more, but after 30 years I can’t remember everything. I hated my surgery internship. You just had to stand there and take it—you can’t just walk out. Frankly, I think the residents set me up?! I have more surgery stories to tell. This is why I’m a neurologist, and I’m so grateful every day.