As medical students, particularly in our clinical years, it can often feel like we are at the mercy of other peoples’ subjective opinions to define our value as future clinicians and it often feels as people are given the centrality of medicine to our lives. While it is undoubtedly true that our seniors play a […]
Medical School Is Not Where to Learn Advocacy
This may sound strange coming from me given my academic history and some of my writing on this site but I have increasingly come to feel that a separation of medical school curricula proper from the role of the physician as an advocate is necessary. By this, I do not mean that medical students should […]