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[quote=Anonymous]I’m amused by these people who complain about fear mongering in regards to NICUs and then go on to do the exact same thing about teaching hospitals. I gave birth at two different teaching hospitals. Almost all of the women in my family are nurses and almost all work at teaching hospitals. Do you know who they complain about? It’s not the residents or med students, it’s the attendings who think they’re God’s gift and regularly ignore nurses’ intuition about a patient who is about to go south—especially when doing something would be inconvenient for them. My mom worked for 40 years in an ICU and always liked the majority of the residents that came through because they were still eager to get things right, try new approaches, listen to advice etc and didn’t believe they’d seen it all and knew everything. And they are adults with medical degrees—let’s not forget that.

And med students don't dictate your care; they’re there to listen and learn. When I was in L&D and postpartum I found all of them to be exceptionally intelligent and compassionate people and my first birth had several unusual features/side effects so I’m pretty sure every OB sent their med student in to see me at one point or another to learn so I got to meet a lot. Not only was it not a burden to be checked on, in at least one instance it was a med student who suggested a referral to a specialist might help and a nurse concurred. It ended up being a huge help for me but the OB that day basically shrugged and approved it but never would have suggested it herself so I would have continued to suffer without that med student thinking outside the “normal L&D box.”[/quote]

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