Scutmonkeys Unite!
May 26th, 2004
Filed under: Medicine
Med School and Residency are certainly trying times. Not as bad as they were during the time of House of God, but real life never adequately prepares you for the challenging and bizarre years that make up medical school, internship, and residency.
The Underwear Drawer is fun and insightful blog by a New York pediatric resident. Make it a point to check out her Scutmonkey Comics.
Some definitions:
Scutwork, or scut, is all the un-fun busy work that no one wants to do (i.e. getting labs, redressing wounds, copying charts, etc.), so of course it falls on the medical student.
Scutmonkey is another name for medical student. See above.
Scutmonkey is another name for medical student. See above.
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