A Doctor lied to make me look bad!

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Specializes in NICU.

I worked 16 hours yesterday to help out my floor. I worked 7A-7P as a nurse, then worked 7P-11P as secretary since our secretary was sick. Our day shift secretary works 7A-3P. So after I handed my patients off at 7p I sat at the desk to begin working on a mountain of orders that had been written that afternoon. The charge nurse tried to put some orders in that afternoon but there were quite a few charts left.

I was tired, hungry, and flustered. The first chart I picked up had a urology consult on it. We call all consults until 9pm then wait until the next AM to call unless urgent. It was 6:55 So I paged the urologist. When he called back he was a complete jerk. I mean just hateful. Asked me all kinds of questions that I answered to the best of my ability. The order was written that he could come in the AM to see the patient. He said he could not come see the patient tomorrow because he has surgeries scheduled all day. So he said that he would come that evening because he had time to come then. I mean he was really rude.

I did a few more charts and then slipped into the conference room to eat my supper. I had to get my supper at 6:30 because the cafeteria closes then. So it was probably 7:05 and my food was already cold. As my food was heating up the charge nurse came and got me and said the urologist was out there and needed to talk to me. Me?? why me? I wasn't the nurse. She said I know... He wants to talk to the person that called the consult.. Well this made me nervous. He was already so mean to me on the phone. What else could he have to fuss at me about.

So I left my food... went out there and.. I HAD CALLED THE WRONG UROLOGY GROUP!!! OMG I felt really terrible. And it just had to be this jerk doctor... He was about to blow his top. He yelled at me and told me that I shouldn't be a secretary and that I wasted his precious time. (WELL I"M NOT A SECRETARY I"M A NURSE!) I apologist repeatedly. (I did feel bad at this point.) He then told me to call the supervisor. Great.... So I got the charge nurse.. NO he wanted to speak to the supervisor of the hospital.. WOW...

Ok so the supervisor comes up and they walk around the corner. I hear him yelling at her telling her that I pulled him out of a difficult surgery case and told him he had to see the patient tonight. And it wasn't even the right urology group. That he was in surgery helping his partner at the hospital on the other side of town when I paged him and he left because he had to see the patient tonight due to surgeries all day the next day. He told her I shouldn't be allowed to call consults yadda yadda yadda....

He was on the floor 10 minutes after I called the consult. It is impossible that I pulled him out of surgery. He drove across town. Parked and made it to our hospital in 10 minutes. So he just fabricated this ridiculus story to make me look worse than I already did.

I mean really! I'm sorry? I felt bad... But to lie to make me look even worse?? what a jerk!

Oh and a nurse leaving day shift ended up on the elevator with him. She called me and told me that he was holding a list of patients and got off on the next floor to see a patient!! So really he didn't even go out of his way at all!

Tiger :madface:

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Double jerk. :argue: So sorry for you. Daydream that his wife treats him the way he treated you. :chuckle

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I truly beleive in Karma. Someday it will come back and bite him in the @$$. Sorry about your day, you did the best that you could.

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Specializes in Critical Care, Orthopedics, Hospitalists.

That is called unprofessional behaviour and you should report it. At my facility, a doc who talks to a nurse like that then is crazy enough to talk to the nursing supervisor afterwards...well, he wouldn't be as smug when he left.

I think you should report that, that is verbal abuse and there is no reason for you to have to take it. Sure, you made a mistake, but that doesn't justify his behaviour.

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Specializes in Peri-op/Sub-Acute ANP.

This sounds awful. The worst thing for me is that your supervisor (the one you were helping out, presumably) wasn't more supportive. It sounds from what you wrote that they threw you to the wolves.

I guess it's true: no good deed goes unpunished!

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Well, none of us are perfect....Fortunately, there wasn't patient harm involved in a simple oversight. One thing I'd like to suggest is that you never allow yourself to work more than 12 hours in a day. The last time I worked more than 12 hours, I, too, made a mistake which was a simple, embarrassing, but fortunately non-harmful, error. Subseqeuntly, I don't do that anymore. A more devestating result of overwork can be exemplified in http://drl.wi.gov/dept/decisions/docs/20061214Thao.htm . Now, move on and put this behind you.

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Here is a simple trick that attendings can learn to insure that consults are requested on a timely basis, to insure that the right specialist or specialty group is contacted, and to insure that the reason for the consult is communicated clearly:

THE ATTENDING NEEDS TO PULL THAT DAMN CELL PHONE OUT AND OBTAIN HIS/HER OWN DAMN CONSULT!!!!!!!!

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Specializes in CVICU, Burns, Trauma, BMT, Infection control.

He's a bottom dweller,he threw a fit to try to make himself look important and failed miserably. I wouldn't work more OT there since supervisor didn't back you up more and also simply because over 12 hours is simply too long to be in that stressful of an environment.

Also,karma works.:icon_hug:

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Specializes in Med/Surge, Psych, LTC, Home Health.

Methinks someone needs some psychiatric help. The urologist I mean.

Is THAT what happens to men who look at weenies and butts all day?

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Specializes in Med/Surge, Psych, LTC, Home Health.

Oh, and....

1) NO doctor leaves a difficult surgery case JUST to see a patient that they have been consulted on, especially since it obviously wasn't an urgent consult. Unless of course, the surgery was well done and over with, or that doctor's presence there was unneccesary.

2) How many surgeons really perform a difficult surgery and THEN turn around and schedule surgeries for "all day" the next day?

Again, doctor, meet straight jacket.

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Daydream that his wife treats him the way he treated you. :chuckle

LOL. I will remember your advice too.

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You made a mistake and all you can do is apologize which you did. Move on as he isn't worth your time.

My guess is the supervisor knew he was full of crap and just let him get it all out to be done with the matter. No doctor would leave a difficult surgery for a consult. The supervisor knew he was lying.

It sounds like the matter will end here so just brush yourself off and go on. One day he will make a mistake and someone will be sure to return the favor back. What goes around comes around.

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