djackson 22568 (5/1/2013)
I can go much further than that. Nice, quiet, unassumming surgeons with excellent people skills and the patience of a saint don't exist. OR nurses learn very quickly how to do their jobs, what each surgeon wants and how to do it. If not, they don't work in the OR very long at all!There is a difference between treating people poorly for no good reason (not a good doctor), and setting standards for performance and demanding a competent person to replace the one that can't perform. There is nothing mean about telling an incompetent nurse to get the xxxx out of the OR! Great surgeons tend towards having limited patience. Why? Because surgeons who are too patient kill people, and don't practice very long.
"Oh nurse, would you please take a moment, when you are done discussing your daughter's cheerleading skills of course, to hand me that clamp so I can stop this guy from bleeding out? Only if it pleases you though, I know how important cheerleading is to you..."
I could not have said this any better and the only thing I will add is I do not have any compunction at all of telling people who are attempting to compromise the production databases under my control and responsibility the exact same thing. Tough s**t if they don't like it or the way I said it either. It's not personal, it's business. It's not their job on the line that will be ultimately standing in the Director or CEO's office explaining why a multi-million dollar production database is down or locked up. It's mine. The buck stops with me because I'm the gatekeeper. I watch the perimeter of my database servers at all times. Bottom line, that is what I get paid well to do. Not win personality contests. 😀
"Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"