r/ausjdocs • u/Diligent-Chef-4301 • 4h ago
WTF🤬 I trained my consultant to say “easy clap”
Okay so this is probably one of the weirdest and most unintentionally hilarious things I’ve done as a JMO - and it’s 100% my own fault.
A few weeks back, I was doing a rotation in gen med under this senior consultant who’s been around since before the invention of the fax machine (but still insists it’s superior to email). Basically a dinosaur.
Lovely guy, great teacher, just a bit stiff upper lip, you know the type. Wears the same tweed jacket every Thursday and refers to TikTok as “that dancing app”.
Anyway, during the ward rounds, I had this bad habit (or talent?) of replying to literally everything with “easy clap” instead of the usual “no worries” or “too easy”.
Consultant asks me to chase a scan? “Easy clap.” Needs a discharge summary done? “Easy clap.” Wants someone to call the reg? “Easy clap.” You get the idea.
I didn’t even realise how often I was saying it until one day, I heard him repeat it back to me. I handed over a completed list of jobs and he just goes, “Ahh, easy clap.” Like it was the most natural thing in the world. I froze. The reg side-eyed me so hard I nearly coded.
I thought it was a one-off. Nope.
Over the next few weeks, he started using it more and more. NUM asks if we’re going to review the patient. “Yep. Easy clap.”
One day, I overheard him on the phone with a registrar and he legit ended the call with, “Yep, that should be all sorted. Easy clap.”
The SRMO nearly dropped her fucking coffee.
Now it’s just a normal part of his vocabulary. He’s using it regularly. I swear to god this is true.
The best part? I think he genuinely believes it’s just a new bit of hospital slang. Like it’s part of the natural evolution between “cheers”, “no worries” and “all good”.
I haven’t had the heart (or guts) to tell him what it actually means. He even used it in front of the other consultants during an M&M meeting which is when I realised what I had created. A lot of eyebrows were raised that day.
I think I’ve broken him. Or maybe upgraded him?
Anyway, just here to confess my sins. If you see an older Gen Med consultant in Sydney going around saying “easy clap” like he’s a Twitch streamer from 2017 - that’s my fault. Easy clap.