I Hate RUDENESS!!

Hey guys! Hope your clinics are going well.

One thing that I don't tolerate is RUDENESS. This blog, I hope will encourage us all to, when qualified, not to treat students with disrespect!

This is the situation that I (and I am sure all of us have had recently) had to deal with on Thursday.

I have been treating a patient with a left cerebellar ischemic stroke for the last two weeks, and have been seeing some great progress with her. On Thursday she was being discharged to another hospital, and I had to give a telephone handover to the physio at this facility.

I won't go into the absolute details as to what information I gave to this physio regarding this patient and what was said to me, but this particular physio (after I introduced myself as a student) was absolutely inappropriate and rude! It was not what this person said, but rather the way it was said.

I ended up 'copping it on the chin' and continued with this in the back of my mind all day, not good for a student to carry around. I/we are all mature aged students and have had a career in a related field, however, we are also all the first to admit that we are no where near these physio's level, hence 'student'.

I worked very hard with this patient, assessing and treating, and was getting some great results, which I and the patient are proud of.

This may sound like a moan, but I feel that if I had not mentioned that I was a student, things would have been different. I am all for constructive criticism, but rudeness will not be tolerated, and if another handover is needed again, this physio will be very diplomatically told.

So, the lesson I feel is this. We have ALL been students and have been through the related stress. We all know what it is like to be a student, grasping for all the confidence you can, and to have someone do this, is NOT a learning experience. Show some respect for students as people, and guide in the appropriate manner, with some constructive criticism.

Enjoy the last two weeks.