I disagree with the firing view. It all comes down to favoritism. I know residents who have "competed" for getting written up the most and were super unprofessional, but the program protects them. I know some residents who were just weird kinda an outcast and quiet, but they use some minor infractions as an excuse to get them out.
If you are not getting “written up” as a neurosurgery resident then you are complicit in all the patient safety issues surrounding being a hospitalized patient. The incompetence in your colleagues at first is astonishing and then as time goes by the bad things that happens to patients makes some people very angry. These doctors call out other doctors, nurses and and staff that harm patients in order to protect patients. Calling out bad actors often backfires because the leadership is also complicit and don’t want to deal with the backlash. The problem is nobody in leadership cares and nobody wants to hear about it. All they care about is the money. I’ve known very good residents that did not make it through training because they stood up for harmed patients too many times. The squeaky wheel does not always get the grease, it gets let go.
I have never met anyone close Chris Duntsh who harmed so many patients in so short of time, but I have seen a lot of attendings that have hurt a lot patients over the course of a 20-30 year career. The number of maimed patients that a neurosurgeon accumulates over a career can be astonishing. It’s criminal and because of the talent drain away from neurosurgery and the fact that there are so many untalented people getting into neurosurgery it’s going to get worse. Nobody with any self-respect wants to be a neurosurgeon anymore. It’s become a club for miss fits.
Is the above poster even a NS? Sounds like a dumb neurologist to me. Of course you are going to make mistakes and screw-up patients as a NS. part of the job and its why they pay you a million.