I watched the season premiere of Grey’s Anatomy… a very interesting showing of egos under stress. Seattle Grace Hospital had fallen to 12th place, and as such, are not the top trauma hospital. They had three women in long dresses drive to the hospital because their driver was thrown through the windshield when the limo he was driving slid on the ice.
An Army trauma doctor on leave rescued the three husbands from their accident the men were in different cars than the women]. He used a pen to perform an emergency tracheotomy on one of the men. The Chief of Staff insisted that they would NOT perform a particular surgery, even though the Army trauma surgeon suggested a different surgery to save his life. As the Army trauma surgeon left the room, “McDreamy” made several derogatory comments.
Whose ego was being bruised? And how did this affect their communication?
In the aviation world, this can be known as Captainitis …
It isn’t what you said, it’s what they think they heard.
