Doctors Yelling at RTs
I learned a valuable lesson today. No i did not get yelled at in clinicals and I hope I never do as a student because it might discourage me. So the RT I was with earlier told a story about a Physician yelling at him across the hall. He said that the doctor ordered the RT (him) to change the settings because the patient was really in bad shape. I don’t know much about Physican’s order and the ventilators since we have not gotten over it in class yet. But I can pretty much sum everything up. So the RT went in and changed the settings. A few mins later the Physician calls him and asks him why he changed it and the physician was yelling at him over the phone. Well the RT said “you told me to change it”. So the physician got quiet and said well your settings are all wrong. The physician changed it while the RT was next to him. The RT told me the physician went in and changed his settings but it was the same exact one as it was earlier.
Basically the RT got yelled at for following orders. While he was telling me this, other RTs in the room added their experiences.So I finally found out that every single RT in the dept got yelled at by that same physican. Even the Manager and Team Leaders. The Physician has anger issues. I don’t know what the RTs dept. has done with the physician since it might be an on going case.
The RTs told me good advice. They said if you get yelled at by the Physician either, Remain passive and tell him if he does not calm down the conversation will go no where. Or ignore everything and DON’T EVER take anything personally and walk away and talk to someone above you. Well they told me a whole bunch of advice and now I have something to watch out for. I guess in every basket of apples there is always a rotten one. The RTs said I will get yelled at, at least a few times in my career if not more but NEVER EVER take it personally and reason is because you were doing your job . As long as it is a benefit to the patient you are doing a good job
I understand why physicians would get mad and yell for endangering their patients lives, but if they get mad for stupid reasons it is no excuse to yell at someone.
I hope i DO NOT get yelled at as a student but after I am a graduate yell at me all you want because I should have sufficient knowledge of what I am doing and I have a better ground to stand in with confidence.
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March 5th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
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March 7th, 2008 at 4:59 am
LOL! Even after you are official you still won’t like being yelled at. Hopefully you’ll work at a hospital where it’s rare. I got yelled at once as a student on a clinical rotation. Both my RT instructor and the nurse jumped the doc’s butt about it. The RT said, “If you’re going to yell, yell at ME.” The nurse said “She’s not even an employee of this hospital!”
At my hospital we do have a few docs we handle with kid gloves because they can bristle, BUT, my hospital has a policy in place with a review board that allows the rest of us to take it to someone higher up if we get treated unreasonably by a doctor. I think that’s a great policy. In general, even if our physicians are short with us they’re not too bad.
March 9th, 2008 at 7:33 am
If a doctor treated me like that I would just stand there and let him rant, then as soon as he was gone I’d write him up.