Emergency meeting??? Something that i couldn't tell HOD

HOD held an emergency meeting with all housemen at 10pm two days ago.....yea, it is 10 pm, not 10am. What is so emergency here??

Someone wrote an anonymous letter to HOD and hospital director complaining nurses not doing their job.....and our 'smart' HOD pointed the finger towards house officers.

He said:" I am sure this is written by housemen."

Well, we are being accused without any evidence and the pity situation is we can't fight back. 'BOSS is always RIGHT'

Then, seems like a brainstorming session to solve the issue. HOD wanted us to voice out our opinion, and it turned out to be HO took turn to tell HOD regarding their encounter with some lazy or irresponsible nurses.

HOD seems to understand at the beginning (my delusion), but at the end, he concluded that housemen must do all the job including the nurses job.

I knew that there was no job scope between HO n nurses job and hard to get a line between it in A and E department.

But we already helped to do ECG, take vital signs, set line, take blood, give medications everyday at work. I thought we are helping the nurses and medical assistants to do all these, but now, according to HOD, these are our job and nurses are actually helping us..........???!!!! Then, they are trained for what, or ask them to sit at counter and get paid for nothing??

Boss, please be more fair to us, we are part of ur 'family' (as mentioned by boss). Don't pretend to listen to us.......but u are listening to your nurses only. Anyway, though i never read that complaint letter, i m sure some of the points are true.

Don't say that we are more lucky if compared to your time as a HO when there were more job than ours. Our world is improving and time has changed everything.........i am sure the nurses during your HO time were more efficient than the nurses nowadays (this is quoted from a retired nurse that i saw in gynae clinic 2 mths ago). We will be glad and grateful if you can say that HO, nurses and MAs must play their role and fulfill own responsibilties instead of putting all the tasks on us, bear in mind, we still have to clerk cases and learn to manage patients.