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I took the opportunity to start a new thread to keep the success of Podiatry Arena away from Doctor bashing. Hope you have no objections?
First may I say every discipline has this problem i.e. panning colleagues and medics are no different with specialist physicians at the summit of Mount Olympus and GPs, the plebes, at the bottom. Podiatrists do suffer from noticeable low self-esteem however, which from my three decades working in the business; I still cannot fathom, where this comes from? Frustrated doctor syndrome may have been supportable twenty years ago, but the general demographic has changed and many young people want to be podiatry practitioners first and foremost. So they are far fewer wannabes today than in previous times. So if it is not a latent dissatisfaction within the individuals, then what is that triggers the aggression towards colleagues.
Mandy and Tinley published works recently on the high stressors in a practitioner's life and Mongomery previously cited "lack of the ability to determine destiny" as a main stressor in our professional lives. Much of the apparent dislike for others is our xenophobic fear of strangers and that our colleagues might be better than we might. A natural form of self-protection would be to safely insulate us by becoming paragons of our own virtue. Where better to do that than in the sanctuary of our own surgeries surrounded by our patients.
Spending too much time alone with people who in the main, have self-inflicted injuries, may damage the physicians health?
With little or no real opportunity to halt the all too boring predictable cycle of clinical events in chronic care, not even with our "superdupernobodyunderstandstheart skills” we seek to vent our pent up frustrations on whom? Not out patients because they are our friends but that other group of disreputables, our colleagues. I believe we bash each other out of frustration, which is a natural compensation for the reclusive type of work we do. After all who would understand an insult better than another foot physician would.
In the end of course it is not our enemies we criticise, but it's ourselves.
Cameron
Hey, what do I know?
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