People skills, pre-meds, medical students and doctors

[i_wanna_be_Brown]

The referring MD was right-the guy was creepy and unable to communicate, and neither D nor I liked him, but the fact that he had the personality of a turnip didn’t matter anywhere near as much as the fact that he was the one more likely to get her out of surgery without complications.

I hope he is just like that with patients and not colleagues or it’s a matter of when, not if, someone dies on the table because of a communication error intraop. Even the most simple surgeries usually require 8 hands (two surgeons, scrub nurse, and circulator) and I’ve been in surgeries with 4 or more surgeons operating simultaneously. Communication can be a life or death matter.