Med Students Experience Abuse in Medical School

Dr. Elisha Yaghmai discusses how the environment of medical education in both medical schools he attended - including within the hospital and clinical settings - were environments ripe for abusive behavior to students. He believes this type of abusive dynamic plays into the reason we have so many of both bad doctors and unkind doctors in America.
Hear more in the full podcast episode.
Episode 2 - Medical School Part II: Abuse of Many Kinds
• Eps 2 - Medical School...
Credits:
Dr. Elisha Yaghmai, M.D. - Host, Executive Producer
Jo O'Hanlon - Host, Set Design, Producer
Monica Salmeron - Director, Producer
Ben Laffen - Videographer
Austin Engler - Video Editor
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Dear Healthcare, It’s You - A new podcast investigating the broken United States Healthcare system.
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Season 1 starts off with Dr. Elisha Yaghmai's personal story of beginning to discover the systemic toxicity & failings of the US health care model as a medical student and how those discoveries have shaped his life's work and purpose: To find a better way.
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[@blossomslife6016]

so glad the toxicity in the medical field is being spoken about

[@oshkosh22]

A profession that preaches teamwork, yet, carries a culture of perpetuate beat-down and power scaling towards future doctors. Obviously, the more experienced are going to know more than incoming students. Quite sad.

[@harrisonzhu3300]

It’s quite different now and better. But yes some older attendings still have this sentiment

[@BillDyszel]

Doctors who are trained to be snide and dismissive of each other are even better at being snide and dismissive of patients.

[@TheBodyScientist81]

FACTS

[@ItsTheJourney24]

Healthcare as a whole is filled with a Lord of the Flies type of nature, everyone just wants to feel superior to the other, when patient care, ethics, and empathy should be top priority.

[@emmafortune6824]

After passing the USMLE I realized this profession isn't worth it

[@nickthehawksstan]

Great video!

[@dale9962]

And water is wet

[@BigMichael78]

This was a really interesting conversation but I feel like it got cut off when they were only getting started.

[@ownthispwn]

Which school/hospital? makes no sense to say all this and not sat names... other ppl probably going through same thing because youre silent

[@Chels-fz5uq]

It's everywhere, this is the norm. So no point in saying names!

[@youngandrestlessjean3634]

Fear of lawsuits.

[@ColibriZurdo]

Don’t forget the abuse med students undergo from the nurses, also, who are mainly women. Most med students are treated like b#tche$ since their career(life) depends on it, and so are forced to go through this hazing.

[@elijahsmith5683]

Nursing school has its share of abuse as well.

[@ColibriZurdo]

@@elijahsmith5683 💯💯

[@trixiesilver4030]

The dynamic of nurses as “b#tche$” punching up

[@Inkbkank.2029]

@@trixiesilver4030 Fr they’re misogynistic and I’ve heard nurses get treated ten times worse by abusive ego statistical doctors 🙄🙄🙄🙄

[@aprilshowers1271]

4th year medical student here. There are some improvements in hours and explicit discriminatory comments, but the culture of pimping, humiliation, and hierarchy is very much still present.

[@tnamitedocile9180]

The funny thing is that residency is way way worse than this😂😂

[@TheBodyScientist81]

Wow. Sounds like hell.

[@Louis-mg5jf]

This is not representative of normal medical school

[@NishantGogna]

I never experienced this level of toxicity. I really enjoyed med school.

[@lynnstrand9367]

I can’t stand the way he ends almost every sentence with “right”, RIGHT?

[@lynnstrand9367]

He uses the word ‘right’ as a filler word so much. I counted SIX times in one sentence.

[@autofocus4556]

Not as annoying as her trying to finish his every thought.

[@curiouslyeternal]

Sounds like this doctor had a rough go and needs a place to vent. Fair enough but might not be the most accurate representation of the current state of medical training for those who are looking

[@FutureDocta]

If you think this is rough... 😂😂 people should know what they are getting into. Being a medical student/resident is BRUTAL and will make you contemplate unaliving yourself at least once throughout the journey, if not more.

[@blackheartcardigan]

This is in no way an isolated occurrence. This is the culture of "professional" programs in medicine and nursing. Hazing and rituals abound throughout the hierarchies. It was never just going to school and studying. It was always this.

[@BenjaminKuruga]

Youre right - in a lot of cases it's worse.

[@trixiesilver4030]

I never realized docs experienced such incivility in training, like in nursing but also with its own distinct themes. 🥺