Revisiting The House of God
Dr. Stephen Bergman, a psychiatrist, published his now-famous satirical novel The House of God under the pseudonym...
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Becoming Cynical, Part 4
I have written quite a bit about why physicians become cynical (see here, here, and here). What follows are...
Becoming Cynical, Part 3
The problem of physician burnout, which in a previous post I defined as a “loss of enthusiasm for work, feelings of...
Running a Trauma Code in the ED
Hospital image via Shutterstock The paramedics flying the patient in by helicopter called the Emergency Department...
Becoming Cynical, Part 2
At this point, I have spent one month on pediatric surgery, one month on trauma surgery (a service that deals mainly...