issue
Written on 26 March 2004 at 12:13 p.m.

So yeah.

I need to decide pretty soon what I'm doing about this whole circ thing. When we're on newborn nursery, the interns are supposed to do the circs for our patients whose parents want them to done. And of course I am totally anti-circ. So. I talked to one of my professors and he said that if I'm ethically opposed, I should tell my program director early on so I won't have to be involved. This kind of thing is done a lot with OB residents who don't want to do abortions, residents in the ICU who don't want to turn of life support, etc. But if I do this, basically what will happen (in the best case scenario) is that I'll be totally taken out of the loop and the other intern will have to do all the circs. So I was thinking that I have two options. I could: 1. Not get out of it, but talk to all the parents about how circs aren't medically necessary, etc., and if they absolutely MUST have it done I could do it with a nerve block so it's not as cruel. Or 2. Get out of it, and the kids would probably get the circs anyway, it's just that somebody else would do it. But I wouldn't have to be there. Hmm. I don't know. I don't want to do any circs at ALL, but I think the first option is probably better for the kids. The second option just seems kind of chickenshit. "I'm against this, so I'm just going to ignore it." Basically.

Hmm. Opinions?

Gotta read and go back to clinic. Derm test was so easy.

xoxo