Recently read @Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential. The suggestions he gives future chefs can be applied to future (and current) physicians (with very little editing)
1. Be fully committed. Be sure about what you want. Don’t be a waffler. Be ready to take and give orders.
1. Be fully committed. Be sure about what you want. Don’t be a waffler. Be ready to take and give orders.
2. Learn Spanish! Ok this doesn’t apply to everybody. But if you live in Miami, it’s a plus.
3. Don’t steal. Don’t do anything you couldn’t take a polygraph test over. Don’t take free stuff unless you know where it’s from; often free goodies are in exchange for something
3. Don’t steal. Don’t do anything you couldn’t take a polygraph test over. Don’t take free stuff unless you know where it’s from; often free goodies are in exchange for something
4. Always be on time
5. Never make excuses or blame others
6. Lazy, sloppy and slow are bad
5. Never make excuses or blame others
6. Lazy, sloppy and slow are bad
7. Be prepared to hear about every variety of human folly and injustice
8. Assume the worst. But don’t let it affect your performance. Let it roll off your back.
9. Try not to lie
8. Assume the worst. But don’t let it affect your performance. Let it roll off your back.
9. Try not to lie
10. Think about the resume. Don’t have glaring deficiencies. As much as it’s hated, the resume has power.
11. Read! And I don’t mean medical journals only. Read the history of medicine. Read non-medical books.
Lastly, and perhaps my favorite.
12. Have a sense of humor.
11. Read! And I don’t mean medical journals only. Read the history of medicine. Read non-medical books.
Lastly, and perhaps my favorite.
12. Have a sense of humor.
