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Re: How competitive are you?
posted at 15/8/2012 3:19 PM BST
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I don't think there is much competition among doctors as such.There is a desire to get better at one's professional work,but I doubt it is at the expense of ones colleagues.If it is a competition,its against oneself.There is a desire to do well in exams and present more papers but these again, are very personal and not directed at others in the business.Medicine is such a highly strung profession that one can't really afford to keep an eye on the activtities of the guy across our department.The effort to be up to date is all consuming. |
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Re: How competitive are you?
posted at 15/8/2012 3:21 PM BST
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Where I work now - no all consuming competition to reach the next level, colleagues be damned. Where I trained? Different matter completely. I have been exposed to some terrible instances of backstabbing, doublecrossing, and general bad behaviour through my training. I moved away. |
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Re: How competitive are you?
posted at 19/8/2012 7:32 AM BST
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In Response to Re: How competitive are you?: I don't think there is much competition among doctors as such.There is a desire to get better at one's professional work,but I doubt it is at the expense of ones colleagues.If it is a competition,its against oneself.There is a desire to do well in exams and present more papers but these again, are very personal and not directed at others in the business.Medicine is such a highly strung profession that one can't really afford to keep an eye on the activtities of the guy across our department.The effort to be up to date is all consuming. Posted by methil In academic medicine there is intense competition for an elevation in the pecking order; my kingdom for a chair. In the public service there is the same; my kingdom for a director's chair. In private practice there is the same; my kingdom for a chair on the back of a boat with a rod and a marlin or the best car or the biggest empire or the most money, the biggest sleep company, the most glamorous wife with big teeth or the largest cardiology outfit and Porsches with ACHTUNG on their number plates. I aspire to none of these. However I do compete for referrals to me based on my skill, my service, my fees etc. We are all fish in big or small shoals eating the smaller fish to become bigger fish. After it is all over, we slowly sink decaying to the muddy bottom of the abyssal depths to be eaten by crabs, worms and fish with fluorescent appendages and big scary mouths. These are the bottom dwellers. It is our fate. In business they are the accountants who do insolvencies for those big fish which get too big too fast or have delusions of grandeur, swell up and die. They dwell symbiotically like limpets on the backs of lawyers. Thus saith the Lord Odysseus |
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Re: How competitive are you?
posted at 19/8/2012 12:03 PM BST
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O, yes, and I forgot those doing research and the Young Investigator Award and how Mary Fitzwotsit just got pipped at the post at the Annual Scientific Meeting and how the judges were biased as two out of three are working on the same mitochondria of spleenworts and their future application in human alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency and the treatment of bunions. I could have died when Paul Reisenstangel got THE prize. You could have knocked me over with a feather...so unfair bla, bla. You know that p value on the second last slide was really 0.067 and not < 0.05 after all? The blackguard....and he won a Blue at Cambridge. Shame, shame. Or how about your plenary session of your conference when the invited guest speaker is introduced as the first man in the Royal Society of Curmudgeons to have written 500 books, 123,340.23 papers (three divorces and a son on drugs mind you) chaired more meetings than Pitt the Elder and been the first man since Newton to be both a Member of the Royal Society and the Canadian Society of Maple Syrup Collectors and with a fossil collection he dug up himself from the early Neolithic of Middle Earth and he donated them all pro bono to the British Museum. Yes, mine eye glazeth over with such shenanigans. I seen it year in year out for thirty years and how Conrad finally got the College Medal and a red gown with a floppy hat and a jazz garter on this right thigh....Zzzz and a gold medal around neck with a red ribbon and a free moon rock from NASA.. No, sure we are not competitive. Why do we call conference running competitions FUN RUNS and pity help any training registrar who does not accompany his aging boss who should have died after Marathon but is still running. Yes, we are a lovely lot. More daggers than Brutus, I say. I'll be friends with you just as long as you don't become too much of a threat to my hip pocket, my political ambitions or my quest for everlasting glory which is like the ads for everlasting sex. No, we are not competitive at all. Now I hope this post is the best one ever posted. |
