The importance of professional evolution in medicine

Education
June 18, 2014

I’ve been a practicing oncologist for all of seven months, and so was surprised when my chief asked that I take part in our quality review panel. The quality review panel is an internal group that is tasked with the responsibility of looking into allegations that a patient’s care was not in keeping with best practice or what is generally considered the standard of care. Cases (often in the form …

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The importance of professional evolution in medicine

Being a good doctor is no more an achievement than being a good Mom

Physician
May 16, 2012

At no other time in my medical training was I as confident that, with hard work and dedication, I could master the field of internal medicine as when I was a newly minted third year medical student.

Fresh from having taken the USMLE step 1, I interpreted my ability to recite the mechanism of penicillin resistance or the role of histamine in the immune response, and describe in great detail the …

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Being a good doctor is no more an achievement than being a good Mom