Evaluating the U.S. Surgeon General nominee: Why clinical experience matters
The single scariest moment in my medical career was not as a student, or a resident with the first dying trauma patient in front of me. Nor was it in Iraq on November 2, 2003, when two Chinooks were shot down and my ER was overwhelmed with trauma after trauma. It was the very first day as an attending in the ER. Up until then, in every single case in …
Evaluating the U.S. Surgeon General nominee: Why clinical experience matters
