Popular shows like Gray’s Anatomy, ER, and House, MD have given the television watching public a good eyeful when it comes to the inner workings of medicine, hospitals, and emergency rooms. They have also shown us how the personalities of those who take up the stethoscope and reflex hammer run the gamut from the sweet, demure, tentative types to the sons of bitches who cut first and ask questions later.
I can look back and remember a few attending physicians who trained me and shaped me and sometimes scared the hell (and a good night’s sleep) out of me.
The first one who always comes to mind was Dr. B, who served as my attending on a medicine service at the Veterans Administration hospital when I was a junior medical student. For those of you unfamiliar with the medical hierarchy, a JMS is one step up from a one-celled organism in the pecking order in any hospital. As a JMS, you did all the grunt work, drew blood cultures in the middle of the night on febrile patients, wrote up admission histories and orders by hand, and always had a well-worn copy of Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine close by.
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