Residency tip:
Identify toxic consultants early and start avoiding them ASAP.
They almost always have a past history - ask seniors quietly.
Common patterns include yelling, scolding for minor mistakes, screaming, wide open eye intimidation, verbal abuse, questioning how you got into medical school, and repeatedly telling you that you donโt deserve to be here.
No matter how much they teach or give in return for absorbing their toxicity, prolonged exposure reshapes your personality - slowly turning you into a submissive version of yourself. (Patients need confident decision-makers, not those trained into self-doubt)
Ninja technique to avoid them:
Become boring and predictable to them!!
Do your work strictly by protocol, speak only when necessary, show no emotional reaction, and never offer extra explanations.
Toxicity feeds on engagement and reactions; when there is none, it loses interest and moves on.
Most importantly, NEVER RESIGN because of one or two peopleโs toxicity.
Residency is demanding by design - abuse is not part of training.
The actor Jackie Chan has said that a boy from Gaza made him cry.
He said, "Recently, I watched a video. As soon as I saw that child speak, I started crying.
He was asked, โWhat will you be when you grow up?โ
He said, โChildren on our side donโt grow up.โ
My tears just came falling down instantly.
Gaza. The children of Gaza...
Every day, being bombed.
When he said that sentence, he had no expression. So, you see, growing old is a form of happiness."
During the bombing of Gaza City, a young man named Hamed Ashour found a German Shepherd that had been separated from its owners due to the heavy shelling. Hamed took the dog to his tent and cared for it so devotedly that he even shared his food with it.
International organizations sympathized with his story and asked him to film the tent and the living conditions he and the dog were enduring so he did. The footage moved many, including an Irish organization that was deeply affected and demanded a safe transfer for the dog, claiming that the tent where it lived was unfit for habitation and unsuitable for its environment.
Indeed, the dog was evacuated to Ireland while Hamed was left behind in the same tent deemed unfit even for the dog.
Thereโs a saying by Martin Luther King: โThe problem is not with the cruelty of the world, but with the silence of humanity.โ
Insane situation yesterday:
I was detained with several Palestinian journalists by the Israeli army, and I was the only one allowed to film, because I have an Israeli passport. Palestinians are not allowed to record their own oppression.
@dpkBopanna First step is to stop showing villians and gundas in films as heros and glorifying their character this all inspiration is taken from there.