What Nurses think of Medical Students Part II

At the Hospital some say Medical Students are a little bossy eh?  They try a little too hard to get something done, thinking they can overide the hospital's standard procedure?

I had a thought after writing my last post that I think might be a cool train of thought. Medical Students may not know everything about the ins and outs of a hospital but what they do know is they have HUGE shoes to fill.  Here is what they are working to live up to:

Those in Medicine are to:

- respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk

- apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures [that] are required

- not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person's family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick.

(Hippocratic Oath)

If you were to ask me, that is a pretty tall order. Learn "all" that is required to help heal the sick, positively affect a patient, their family, and their economic stability.  If, when, I am a medical student, I think I will be working very hard to do all within my power to learn the science and art of healing. I can only imagine that medical students are feeling just slightly overwhelmed with all they must learn and do.  

I would just like to say that I am grateful we have licensed nurses who work tirelessly for long hours to tend to Doctor's and Patient's needs. I am grateful for willing and able doctors that work their tail off for other's. It has been a privilege to have gotten to know many nurses and doctors at UMC,  I hope I will be a better Medical Student and Doctor from what I've learned.

-MLH