Anyways, the issue that stuck out most saliently to me was the cultural expectation placed upon medical staff to work through any issue regardless of personal life, and what must be a tacit management understanding of the situation. Somebody in management screwed up, and now the doctor is left holding the bag, and this doctor unfortunately feels some responsibility to manage the situation. This doctor is frustrated that the anesthesiologist did not make the same sacrifice, and wanted to tend to family.

I don't blame either of them. Kudos to the doctor for holding the bag that management dropped, and congrats for the anesthesiologist who won't submit to exploitive cultural expectations.

Doctors aren't smart, they're just friendly keeners with something to prove to their helicopter parents.

Edit:

> You know, the people who are actually saving lives every day instead of figuring out how to distract (er, engage) and bilk (er, monetize) people.

Very few doctors do anything of the sort. Most of them just charge you $100+ to tell you what you already knew and write you a scrip or a referral.

See, that's what I mean. I wasn't writing about the general population of doctors, I was writing about the specific doctors who were in the room with me, who you so arrogantly dismiss.

It's really an ugly and limiting mindset.