Professional: The Devil Wears a Red Beard...

I just finished a two week stint with potentially one of the worst "professionals" I have ever run across.

The Cow was simply put: an unsavory individual. He has a preceding reputation of picking one person and driving them into the ground. Horror stories include my upper levels leaving rounds in tears and doubting their calling.I was a little bit different. I refused to let someone like him bring me to tears. While the work was grueling (which he had no control over) it was my fervor against what he could control that drive my fury to stand up to him on the 2 occasions that I did. I can't believe someone the likes of this guy is slated to work with residents. I know I know I know that no residency program is perfect, but that shouldn't stop every residency program from attempting to be the best that it can be.

In any case, of course I had to stand up and call bullshit because that's exactly what I felt was being thrown my way. Lol, now that I think about it, there were so many points this month where I could've kicked someone in the shins. I truly was alone this month; my resident compradre wasn't a huge help and no one was willing to do the right thing and step up against the Cow besides my advisor (sorta.) Lol, they were willing to let someone completely rip apart the soul and ambition of another colleague just to save face (theirs of course.) Pathetic.

But now I've survived and know better, now more than ever, who my friends and confidantes are. Suprising to me was the fact that one of the people I considered my biggest supporter and one of the reasons I came here thinks of me as basically a spoiled entitled brat. Lol. Can't win them all indeed.

So what I'll do in the meantime is keep doing my do, changing the lives of the kids under my tutelege and wait until the moment when I can rid myself of the haters. Holla!