We don’t talk about grades. At an Ivy League medical school. We ho and hum about how we do. It’s interesting. We spend the first two years on a pass/fail grading basis. And so when we get to our clinical years, and we start to get graded, we become anxious. We’re starting to be compared […]
You Lost Your Mother? How Are You Going to Find Her?
The Hippocratic Oath states “I will prescribe regimens for the good of my patients according to my ability and my judgment and never do harm to anyone.” Yet, sometimes doing good for your patients can come with harm. Treatments could very well have unfavorable consequences. As long as the benefits outweigh the costs, the patient should come […]
