I'm looking for advice on handling difficult attendings. I'm almost halfway done with my internship, and I'm finding that I'm butting heads a lot with some attendings. I'm from the South and I'm interning in New England, so I know that some of these feelings are just cultural differences, but I often feel like I'm being 'singled out' or brushed off. On Christmas day the attending kept giving me any case that walked into the ER even though there were 3 other interns with me. Ctd in comments

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I'm sorry you are dealing with this. I think you have nothing to worry about since they offered you the job. It could be the cultural differences you are feeling as I had a similar occurrence with my boss. I sent an email to a client and used the terms please and thank you in them but I was told my email had a rude tone to it (I'm from the north and my boss is from the south). I still have no clue how my email was rude bc I used please and thank you but I guess culturally different because I didn't start the email with good morning mr .... how is your day going. hope you are doing great. here is the contract that we discussed the other day.... instead I just said.... mr ..... attached you will find the contract we discussed the other day. can you please sign when you get a chance and send it back thank you

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It was to the point that the case I signed up to see at noon didn't get seen until 3 or 4 pm because I kept getting handed cases to start - as if they thought I was slacking and not actively working on something. There are also times when I ask a question from an attending and am completely brushed off or get my head bit off because they didn't understand what exactly I was asking. For example, I had a mildly azotemic patient and I was trying to gauge if they should be hospitalized and the attending just looked at me and goes "... Possibly." Which is not a helpful answer. Am I being too sensitive? Do I just need to suck it up and get through the next 6 months? They've offered me a job at this ER

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