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Toba Bolaji is a surgery resident and can be reached on Twitter @tobabolaji.

Receiving feedback and critique is a complicated art

Toba Bolaji, DO
Physician
June 12, 2022

In the mid 16th century, surgical education was that of a true apprenticeship. The student learned through direct observership and imitation of a skilled, elder surgeon. It wasn’t until the beginning of the 20th century that surgical education evolved into a formalized and structured program. Dr. William Osler introduced the concepts of specialty clerkships and bedside rounds in the late 1800s. Graduated autonomy, introduced by Dr. William Halsted in the …

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Receiving feedback and critique is a complicated art

The day my patient called me the N-word

Toba Bolaji, DO
Physician
March 19, 2021

Two years into my surgical training, and five days after the murder of George Floyd, someone called attention to my Blackness in a way I had never experienced.

One of my patients was an older white lady who appeared to be between 70 to 80 years old. I saw her for a routine postoperative visit when it was time to remove her surgical dressing. As I do with all my patients, …

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The day my patient called me the N-word

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