OB/GYN
My OB/GYN rotation sucked. Well, they all sucked, but that’s besides the point. Anyway, I got to stick my fingers into nasty coochies that were infested with STDs such as HIV, HSV, and countless others I don’t really care to mention at this point.
You see, the patients that I saw really didn’t give a shit. That is, they didn’t care about their hygiene and I honestly wondered if they had showered within the last 3 days. They were homeless, abused IV drugs, intoxicated by 9 am each day, and had sex for crack. They would also show up for their first prenatal care visit at 36 weeks gestation…lovely. “I want da best for ma baby” they would say. “I betta get da best care for ma baby”.
Do you have any vaginal discharge? Loss of fluid? Contractions? Is the baby moving? These were questions I had to ask, but I really didn’t care about this stuff. I had to ask this crap because that’s what they told me to do. This was the right way to do things. Be honest – would you really care to know about some nasty-ass discharge that some crack whore had for the last three weeks? I didn’t think so.
True story: I was in OB/GYN clinic on the first day of my rotation. This crack whore shows up who’s 37+ weeks pregnant with no prenatal care at all, and it turns out that she’s HIV and HepC + (wow, I’m shocked). There’s no telling what else she’s got…anyway, I’m supposed to go in and work her up, do the pelvic exam, etc. Upon questioning her and finding out that she’s:
1). intoxicated at approximately 9am
2). Hep C+
3). HIV+
4). Has a boyfriend in the exam room who’s also intoxicated at 9am
so I walk out of the exam room and tell the resident “I’m not doing the pelvic exam on this chick…sorry man, I just can’t do it.”
He says that’s cool and all, and I go on about my business. God, I can’t imagine people who actually want to go into OB/GYN.
Until next time,
Peace.
For the love of God, please do not practice as a physician. Go into administrative medicine you miserable F*CK. The fact that you even got into medical school is a damn shame. You keep talking about physician suicide rates so why not do us all a favor and join one of those statistics. There will be one less F*ck up doctor in this world. You shouldn’t even be allowed within 10 feet near a patient. You are pathethic and give all us other medical students a reason to work even harder to make up for miserable sh*ts like yourself.
I’m glad you decided to enter medicine for all the wrong reasons like 60% of all the other students in medicine.
Haha, I can kick back and watch all you gunners kiss ass while I surf the web and play games…and that pisses you off.
But I enjoy it.
I know you’re probably very busy, but can you please update your blog more often? I enjoy reading them.
Haha bunch of haters, who cares about why you entered medicine, though I must say medicine is no different from any other career, bullshit abounds everywhere you go, and atleast this way you get job security and a good income.
update pls…good stuff
I’m a mother of a very large family and I have seen the patients you describe going in to the hospital or in the witing room at my OB’s office. I have cried thinking of those sweet babies going home with those mothers.
I wonder how many doctors read this and nod their heads? I will tell you, I always ask for the interns for my births. I am probably a funny patient to them if they over hear me telling my husband, “I don’t want to scream or I’ll scare her off OB!”
My eldest daughter just turned 18. She went to visit some friends at a former school/other city with a different break over spring break. One of them was born at the same hospital she was born at and when I met him and his mom years ago, we both thought that we had seen each other at the same OB’s office. Well, this friend of hers just dropped out of school three months shy of graduation– as did several other former friends. My daughter found out that her male friend who I mentioned– his mother was/is a prostitute and she has several other children and it broke my heart to think of them. So many people so badly want children! (My daughter just got an EMT/firefighter scholarship.)
I hate to say it, but I have an idea from where you are coming from with this. I wish patients could read this and see themselves through your eyes and be motivated to change, but they are not the ones to see a problem with how they are.
As always– keep up your excellent work, Hoover!
I can not believe what a cruel, cold “human” being you are!!! Get yourself out of the medical system before you kill anymore innocent people.
Why don’t you go shave your head, learn the Hitler salute and get a white robe and white dunce cap and move south?
You have fooled all of your professors and teachers but sooner or later your racist, elitist, murderous and sick ways just might get you in trouble.
How is anything he wrote racist? He doesn’t mention race anywhere in this post. I’m stuck in the passive aggressive shit show that is the OB GYN rotation required for third year of medical students and I’ve had to do work ups on crack whores of all shapes, sizes, and colors. It sucks an epic amount of ass no matter what they look like. Until you’ve had to deliver a crack baby at 3am after working for 36 hours straight you have no idea what you’re talking about. And as far as I can tell he didn’t harm any patients – they do that well enough without help from those working in the “medical system.”
Idiots, the writer of the blog IS NOT going into clinical medicine after medical school. He’s made this clear over and over again. Read a few entires before you decide to share your opinions.
Word up bro. I hate my patients too. Tons of fucked up homeless low-lives that wastes my time. There have been many a morn when I wake up and have to care for more of these non-paying miserable fucks. Thank god I only have a few more months to serve and then back to the real world where people have to pay for service and not just wait for Uncle Sam to dough out services. Rest of you “docs,” have a good life slaving away and earning min. wage.
I’m off to Wall St.! (in a few months)
To the other posters above, you don’t realize what it’s like to be a doctor so therefore your comments and concerns are nothing more than just a PC statement of humanism to establish your own self security that everyone is good, everyone is inherently nice, etc. Shut up yeah? If you’re a doctor/future doctor then that’s fine and you know all of the hardships we endure, if else, then shut up.
On another note, it’s really funny. Keep up the good work!
Yeah…I don’t see myself being able to do any of this in 3rd year, not gonna work
I find Hoover’s posts amazing! I’m on my 3rd yr med and kind of interested in OB/GYNE. Well we’ll see but what hoover’s posting is his opinion and that’s fine. I actually agree with him for the most part.
After only five years in the health profession, I am seriously considering a career change as well. Nobody wants to hear the truth in America. I’m tired of children who are diagnosed with autism, when really all they need is a good belt on their ass cheeks. They don’t have aspergers. They’re parents just refused to give a care about them and instead of facing the truth, and blaming it on their own neglect, they go out and get a medical diagnosis to justify their childrens oppositional/defiant behaviors. “yeah, she’s allowed to talk to people like that. Shes autistic.”
No bitch. She’s not autistic. I’ve worked with autistic boys and girls, and they are amazing. Your kids just a spoiled little brat who needs a smack in the face.
Go ahead and get mad at me people. It’s the truth, so I’m assuming you will just like you did with this guy.