Working in healthcare, hierarchies, god-complex, power-dynamics and the obsession with always being right.

Another weeping spell.

This is how healthcare politics usually works: Make them feel they can't do anything, watch them crumble, then tell them "see? I proved to you that you can't do anything!"

This is how people who have power will punish you for being human.

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dancingtongue · 80-89, M

Would help to know a few more specifics about the type of situation you are talking about. Having been in the health care industry for 40 years, I know what you mean about the God-complex -- it is driven into them in med school -- which leads to the hierarchies and power dynamics. One can understand they want the confidence of knowing that in a medical crisis where seconds count that their order will be instantaneously obeyed,. But it, and usually having the highest level of education & degree in the room, does tend to lead them to believe they know the most about EVERY thing.

The part that troubles me is the allegation of being set up to fail so they can lord it over you. Sometimes the best teaching tool IS to do so, not to humiliate but as a way to let a worker see why it won't work. Otoh, if patient care, patient safety is involved, then someone needs to be reported to regulatory departments and/or agencies.

assemblingaknob · 31-35, F

@dancingtongue I wouldn't really complain if academic discussions and bedside teaching was usual. There's just a lot of judgement and backbiting from the overlords for not knowing something and little to no "make this into a teaching moment" and help increase the trainee's knowledge. Questions bring in a lot of whispers and mistrust. Are we supposed to pretend we know?? We work most of the day and Only go home to hit the pillow and repeat. Some information transfer never hurt anyone. If we were just supposed to learn from a dozen thick books and articles while dealing with frequent exams and other similar side quests, why are we to work mad hours every day? Do they just assume us to be just handy men of sorts who are miraculously supposed to have downloaded every guideline under the sun in our brains when we don't have half as much experience as them??? To get offended by something as innocent as academic questions is wild tbh.

dancingtongue · 80-89, M

@assemblingaknob Sounds like a medical residency. My condolences. An archaic ritual of hazing -- familiar as the initiation to many groups in different fields -- but you would think would be beneath doctors. But it seems to boil down to "I had to survive this, so you are going to have to as well", imho. Compounded by the fact that many hospitals see you as cheap labor more than someone still in an academic process of learning on the job. My only advice is to not take it personal. The primary thing they are trying to teach is to have a hard skin--which health care and patients need less of--so try not to give them the satisfaction of seeing the tears. Keep telling yourself it is not personal, and this too shall pass. Best wishes. 🥺

SinlessOnslaught · M

How do you react when they treat you like that?

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