I Lied When I Said We Did Everything We Could
Whenever I read something like this, I am reminded of several friends of mine who are physicians, and how a couple of them seemed to undergo personality changes during or after med school and residency.After residency, they seemed to have lost an important part of their humanity - namely compassion and a desire to help people. It was replaced an air of superiority and contempt for others, tinged with cynicism and a joyless gallows humor.I'm not sure how common this is, or how my other physician friends managed to avoid it, but it was a disturbing and obvious change that bothers me to this day.(Though now I think about it one thing some of them had in common was wisely quitting general surgery residencies because of the massive and unprofessional mistreatment of residents as well as rampant sexism.)