myths uncovered

I have completed my three weeks with the Pediatric Surgeons and I start Trauma Surgery on Thursday...after 3 days of orientation to surgery (yeah, that would have been good before I started pediatric surgery....). I am definitely excited to try out this trauma stuff---especially since i'm interested in emergency medicine.
Surgery is an interesting field. Besides shadowing a surgeon before I started med school, the only exposure i've had was Turk thru Scrubs and of course Greys Anatomy. Most people think that surgery is just like Grey's anatomy, or they think its so far off. I'm here to tell you thats a little bit of both.
Myth #1. Everyone sleeps with each other. Although there are some crazy sex scandalous stuff that goes on in the on-call rooms; no, the residents I worked with were definitely NOT sleeping with the attendings, nor were they sleeping with each other. The fact is, they were so excited to actually sleep, and they are all so wound up tight during the day, that i'm pretty sure no night-time activity goes on for any of them.
Myth #2. All that surgeons do is cut. Well that is close to true for the attendings, but not at all for the residents. The residents would finish up a surgery, run out of the room, go see a patient who was vomiting post-op day 2, give some meds, discharge another patient, stop by x ray to see an image on a different patient, and be back in time to start the next surgical case. I was amazed how efficient they were (btw nothing like my neuro rotation). The attendings would finish a case, see the parents of the kiddo and then read part of the paper, or polish their devlish trident.
Myth #3. Surgeons do not have good bedside manner. This is sad, but true. I saw docs make awful jokes---my skin would crawl, I'd feel so awkward. I saw them talk down to teenagers and the parents of the teenagers. Yes, they could preform amazing tasks with their knowledge of anatomy, and skill, but no, they are not like our favorite SBS teacher in any way, shape or form.
Myth #4. All doctors are good looking and have time to do their hair, makeup, and workout---just like the docs on Greys or Scrubs. Yeah right. My resident told me one day that it had been 3 days since she washed her hair. One person mentioned working out, once. The truth is---they all work really hard and they love it. They couldn't think of any other way to live their life.

thats all i have for now. i know it sounds like a lot of bashing, but as i said before i'm actually interested in surgery, so I'm just trying to really think this out before i sign myself up for this kind of lifestyle. =)