u/AlarmingSeason2210

Never expected that a non clinical branch would have such toxicity.

As the youngest and the bottom of the food chain I da accept that I would end up with a lot of work and blame but the fact that seniors with 7+ years of experience and multiple degrees have resorted to stealing credit and ensuring the blame squarely ends up on the junior a.k.a me in case of mistakes is causing me to feel like this is not a suitable place

Asking for help from seniors with tough /suspicious cases translates to being incompetent.

Months ago a very old professor praised that even with the only few months of experience I was trving the hardest and did the small stuff on my own and ensured that the turn around time was maintained. that has become the bone of contention and ever since I was even told to slow down on the work pace

Refusing to participate in gossip and provide my personal life details is apparently not appreciated

Worse is even the MBBS and PG students are now being told to limit interactions by a particular faculty and highlighting that my needing help means I do not know anything thereby undermining any authority.

The head refuses to rock the boat and cannot take any action as he is over dependant on the senior members to run the department and dares not to speak up as those aforementioned members are longtime/generational settlers of the region and have influence over the management people in the college.

Need guidance on how / what to do?

Hi! Its been a year and a half since I have graduated and im working at a nice place where I have few seniors that I can ask for help at times. However there are times when I have to diagnose independently and I think sometimes I do tend to miss out things (poor staining/artefacts/less information) . When the mistake is found out and I get the correct diagnosis, I feel like whatever I know is useless. Even though it has happened like 2 times while looking at hundreds of cases this year. Its not a gross mistake but I did miss out on stuff and I was made to feel bad about it.

Cause I cannot ask those seniors if they ever made such mistakes early on in their career, hence im asking for some real life experiences here. Please enlighten me. Edit: While all the comments about how one should look at clinical manifestations/history alongside is appreciated kindly keep in mind that in my country its quite common that the previous lab reports get lost , oftentimes the reports can be wrong or simply not available yet to me. For cytology one might be able to ask the patient directly or at times the slides are sent over by the interventional radiologist with vague findings. Even had a case of pleural effusion where the pulmonologist simply sent pictures of the plates but actively went out of his way to block my access to printed radiologist report. Hematology slides without history provided is common. Asking for history leads to vague answers mostly.