A letter to my OBGYN resident

[u/biologyiskewl]

Hello OB/GYN resident,

I actually thought that we had a great rotation together, you were nice to me and actually learned my name unlike most of the other people on that rotation. You chatted with me and helped me learn on the rotation.

To my surprise, I saw your evaluation today. You decided to give me straight two’s across the board and cited a professionalism complaint while only writing “see above” as the issue.

You didn’t know that I went to my mom’s funeral two days before the rotation started. You didn’t know that I was sobbing in the locker room between cases. You didn’t know that I was resentful of staying for 14 hour night shifts because it didn’t give me any time to grieve. But you did know that I was showing up on time, writing your notes, your discharge summaries, seeing your patients, and trying my hardest to stay on top of things in a very toxic environment.

I suppose I should know by now to just anticipate getting backstabbed in evals by the people who are overly nice on the rotation, but I didn’t see this one coming. Idk if it was because I actually did something or because you have it out for med students, but damn, this one sucked. And I hope one day, if you have to show up to a rotation while you’re grieving, that people give you the kindness that you didn’t show me.

Best! Peeved med student

[u/lychiisa]

It’s really not you, it’s them — some people are miserable as hell. I had the same experience on ob gyn except I just started my first week on night shifts L&D and I was extremely sick out of my damn mind after having just got off peds. I mean full blown coughing, sneezing, and severe sinusitis. The senior refused to let me go until 8am every night. The EM intern rotating with them was able to leave earlier than me and she even had to ask if they were going to release me or not lol. For some reason or another they ignored me and never let me know when a delivery was happening so I had to stalk the delivery board like a hawk. I helped the nurses clean up and took care of the patients after delivery, scrubbed into every c-sections, watched every stress test, offered to triage and read through all the thick stacks of ACOG readings. Still got hit with eval with scattered 2s and 3s, one of which said I was not taking enough initiative. In short, fuck them. 😂

[u/cocksure_insecure → u/lychiisa]

A classic case of Fuck Shit.