1/The White Coat ceremony ideally would disclose what the profession knows about itself, wrote @SaulWeiner
“We have to be candid about our own imperfections. You probably won’t always be treated respectfully. We apologize in advance for that”
“On Becoming a Healer” (2020)
“We have to be candid about our own imperfections. You probably won’t always be treated respectfully. We apologize in advance for that”
“On Becoming a Healer” (2020)
https://twitter.com/gabby_brauner27/status/1488659988197249026
2/“We don’t know which among you have an open heart and an open mind, and which have just learned to appear that way.
We’ve done our best to screen out the latter, but medical school admissions is an imperfect process”
We’ve done our best to screen out the latter, but medical school admissions is an imperfect process”
3/“During the early years of training you may be in survival mode..so that you can get through all the stuff we foist on you to memorize. You won’t need much of it when you practice medicine, but a fair amount of the content will be on board exams”
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4/“How do you avoid going down a well trodden path in which the patient is related to as “It” rather than “Thou”? Foremost..by remembering that you are more like your patients than otherwise. You are just a motor vehicle accident away from becoming a patient yourself.”
5/For a fresh, inspiring, humane take on the growth we wish to do in becoming a healer (and the many ways that is undermined by our medical schools), read “On Becoming a Healer” by @SaulWeiner and consider our podcast by the same name open.spotify.com/episode/6M4AV3…
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