alright. so ... i generally will not be found complaining. it's not my nature. i don't like complaining, and i don't think it's productive - so to me, it's useless to do it. i am a solution finder. i am a solution person.
however, today, i need to vent.
and it's about my job.
and .... i never complain about this job, honestly. i love - and i mean love - this job. it's actually kind of abnormal how much i adore what i do. in a nutshell, i sell anesthesia products - not drugs - the airways. i work for the largest distributor of airways. the company has been coined as the revolution to anesthesia 20 years ago. i love the industry - not just the medical industry - it's true, i love medicine - but i love the segment of the population in medicine that i work with - anesthesiology. for the most part (chime in here, Nichole ;) anesthesiologists are happy to be where they are, they have humble attitudes, and they are willing to speak with "lowly sales reps". they regard *me* as a professional, and knowledgable, and they generally treat me as such.
except today.
i am in boston today, and an anesthesiologist just huffed out of the room that i am in inservicing and showing our newest, coolest product. he was fine, initially. asked me a question or two, and seemingly was receptive. then, his daggers came out, and he questioned everything, snide remarks flew (not loudly - but still) and he snuffed my responses off as "whatever, i know better". he was questioning things that aren't even appropriate to question, and was just a naysayer. put the device down, and literally stormed out of the room. there were 10 other people in the room (i am at a big hospital today) and not one person even flinched, or looked at us. it was blatantly apparent that he is just that way.
annoying.
honestly, i welcome the challenges. i welcome the questions. they all help me learn, and they help me grow. i am big enough to recognize that i don't know as much as any doctor, nor will i, unless i do what they've done in school. i am also humble enough to recognize that i am still learning about anesthesia. i don't come off as snarky, or pompous. confident, yes. i am confident in my knowledge. i am confident in my product. i've been in the medical industry now for, gulp, 20 years.
he, on the other hand, was a turd.
there, i feel so much better.
:) thanks for listening. back to 'rose colored glasses' for me.
2 comments:
Well, here's to bumper sticker philosophy and all that: Mean People...um, you know.
So sorry he was pissy, but there's that whole 'you reap what you sow' thing, and I don't think he's reaping anything positive.
You, OTOH, my friend, have a bouquet everywhere you go.
So there.
:)
Oh, I'm so embarrassed for us. I mean us doctors. I have seen this so often in the last 7 or so years that I've been doing this, that I've had to ask myself what's going on. I mean, if these kinds of personalities existed in the real business world, they'd likely be fired. So why is that behavior tolerated in the medical field?
here's the difference I think. Those people *do* exist in the real world. But that behavior is not tolerated there. They get reprimanded for being disrespectful or not a good team player, or whatever. But in medicine, no one says anything. Nurses are trained to just be quiet and let the ass hole doctor vent, and colleagues just tolerate it. So the behavior persists. And often intensifies with age.
I'm sorry you had to bear the brunt of that. :-(
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