I gotta say, I hate this the most about academic medicine
This isn’t a made up story. This actually happened.
Me: “So this is why I think we should order [cheap blood test that comes back in an hour]”
Attending: *goes into a 5 minute rant as to why it’s not necessary, about why we should do hypothesis based testing, and why I’m the sole person responsible for the demise of US healthcare by over ordering tests*
30 minutes later…..
Attending: “Let’s order [expensive test that will delay discharge until after weekend}”
Me (having no idea why we need it): “Just for my learning, why do we need this test since the patient didn’t have any symptoms related to this and it wouldn’t change management.”
Attending: “you never know and besides she’s already gotten a million tests done here anyways”
Ok thanks for the education attending 👍