When pimping a medical student can backfire on a doctor
The third year of medical school is a lesson in humility. In the OR, you’ll invariably cut the suture too short, or too long, or too slowly. On the floors, the one laboratory value you haven’t checked is the only value vital to the patient’s survival. And just when you think you know everything there is to know about a disease, the Attending Physician will keep asking you questions until …