What Makes a Great Physician?
At this blog’s inception nearly five years ago, I asked myself the following question: “When you watch impressive...
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How Doctors Choose a Specialty
People sometimes assume that every doctor feels a calling or has a special skill for one area of medicine or another....
Revisiting The House of God
Dr. Stephen Bergman, a psychiatrist, published his now-famous satirical novel The House of God under the pseudonym...
A Day in the Life, Part 2
This post continues my description in the last one of a day in the life of a medical student on rotation, where...
A Day in the Life, Part 1
My editors here at The New Atlantis suggested I write about what a day is like for me and other members of the...
Residents and Rounds
Doctors practice “grand rounds,” ca. 1920s. (National Library of Medicine) This post is meant to provide a bit of...