Doctors in the workplace: be actors, not spectators
If you're a doctor in an organisation, you are likely to face (successful) attempts to increase your workload or divert you from the work you should actually be doing, along with several obstacles that daily make it difficult for your work to flow — bureaucratic obstacles, communication obstacles, equipment and facilities obstacles, information technology obstacles, human resource allocation obstacles, …
Don’t give in to the attitude “That’s how things work here, what can I do?”.
Things are done and not done in a certain way because one or a few decided so. Thus, someone can decide differently.
If you can solve the problem, solve it.
If you don’t have the power to do so, take the problem to somebody who does. Don’t hold back because someone decided (!) there was no need to regularly think and ask about the problems people face, or because the person you are going to talk to helped create the problem.
It is the job of your director to provide you with the best possible working conditions and move out of the way the obstacles to your work.
If he/she can’t make a certain decision, someone else can.
You may find superiors who take responsibility and make efforts to solve the problems.
You may find superiors who try to move to you the not-yours responsibility and burden of solving the problems, or superiors who…simply…don’t…care. In these cases, I would say you should get out of there as soon as you can.
Trainees from all years and specialists can come together to design a plan that includes thinking about and listing current & future problems and possible solutions, and reaching out to the targeted people (probably the people who should be in the first place thinking about and listing current & future problems and possible solutions…).
You can have these discussions not only at a department/division level but also at an institutional level. Some problems are certainly common to many. In fact, the discussions can continue at a regional level, national level, etc.
Good luck.
Infekta