Recently during rounds on a busy inpatient teaching service at a county hospital, I led a group of medical students into a patient’s room. I asked the same question I have asked well over 10,000 times: “What do you see?”
Observation is a powerful tool at the bedside, and offers us an opportunity to learn from one another.
My student replied, “I see a white man sleeping in no acute distress.”
I repeated …
It is not uncommon for doctors to question the reasons why we do what we do. The journey is long. The debts often seem insurmountable. The harsh lessons learned from a mistake made with best of intentions are an unforgiving punishment for “life without forgiveness.” Memories may fade, but the scars always seem to linger. On the one hand, like a relief pitcher in major league baseball, we must forget …
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