Look y’all, I’m not the world’s smartest resident. I’m not who you go to for tips on how to ace your boards or whatever. I’m just trying to make sure I take care of my patients. So generally when students ask me questions about diagnoses and labs, I sometimes can answer and sometimes I’m just as confused as they are. However, I’ve finally found how I can help students. When they come to me dejected because they feel like they’ve messed up, I can always give them an example of how I’ve messed up worse haha. You walked in to the patient room and mispronounced their name? I’ve not only done that, I’ve walked into a patient room and forgot my own name mid-introduction. You’re attending asked you a question about what to do next in a code and you couldn’t remember? I’ve done the same thing. Even worse, when I was volunteering at a hospital in college, the attending told me to turn up the lights in a coding patient’s room on the floor and I accidentally turned all the lights off IN THE MIDDLE OF A CODE. I am fine and you’re going to be fine too. You’re not a bad person because you made a mistake. Everybody has been a student before and none of us were perfect.
