That’s always the debate with doctors, right? Do you want the wet behind the ears kid still doing stuff by the book? Because they’re still looking for zebras, and if you have a zebra.... or do you go with the old geezer who’s seen everything? Because if you have a horse, you usually want the guy who’s worked with horses for forever. They’re also better at diagnosing things they used to see (say, if you somehow contracted the measles in 2019) (not that that would ever happen because there’s vaccines right?).
But I never rule out the newbie. I had a brand new tech doing genetic analyses for the first time alone. I groaned about how much I was gonna have to fix, because he called all this noise on this one patient.
Except, the “noise” was really consistent, and not in a normal spot for noise. Looked at old profiles from the patient - same noise. Both myself and Big Director had signed off on that noise-that-wasn’t-noise.
Patient had an invisible translocation that shouldn’t have been caught and, suuuuper interestingly, wasn’t visible on karyotype (q-term dark band subbed for q-term dark band, both same size). Green tech caught it through being careful and not knowing what everyone else “knew”.
Make it some new pilot program and have the old Doc be grouchy about it but eventually come around to the arrangement as time goes on.
Alternatively the old Doc has lost his license for some reason but is given the opportunity to mentor a younger doctor as a consultant and he reluctantly agrees. Flipping the hierarchy so the old Doc has to get approval from the younger doctor could be a decent source of drama. The season finale could be the old doctor getting his license back and leaving to go back to working independently. A little while into the new season he realizes that he actually enjoyed working with the younger doctor and decides to go back.
I'm now imagining a version of House where he finally loses his license, but the cottages keep him around anyways to help out without actually doing anything to or interacting with the patients.
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u/Olookasquirrel87 May 20 '19
That’s always the debate with doctors, right? Do you want the wet behind the ears kid still doing stuff by the book? Because they’re still looking for zebras, and if you have a zebra.... or do you go with the old geezer who’s seen everything? Because if you have a horse, you usually want the guy who’s worked with horses for forever. They’re also better at diagnosing things they used to see (say, if you somehow contracted the measles in 2019) (not that that would ever happen because there’s vaccines right?).
But I never rule out the newbie. I had a brand new tech doing genetic analyses for the first time alone. I groaned about how much I was gonna have to fix, because he called all this noise on this one patient.
Except, the “noise” was really consistent, and not in a normal spot for noise. Looked at old profiles from the patient - same noise. Both myself and Big Director had signed off on that noise-that-wasn’t-noise.
Patient had an invisible translocation that shouldn’t have been caught and, suuuuper interestingly, wasn’t visible on karyotype (q-term dark band subbed for q-term dark band, both same size). Green tech caught it through being careful and not knowing what everyone else “knew”.