Are Doctors Who Make Mistakes

In Every Industrialized Nation, The Movement To Reform Health Care Has Begun With Stories About Cruelty.

Expertise Is The Mantra Of Modern Medicine.

I Chose Surgery Because I Thought That Perhaps This Would Make Me More Like The Kind Of Person I Wanted To Be.

Just Look At The List Of Who The Lowest-paid People Are. Pediatricians Are At The Bottom. You Would Also Look At Internists. You Would Look At Psychiatrists. You Would Look At Family Physicians, Hiv Specialists. People Who Take Care Of Chronic Illnesses By Seeing People Carefully Over Time, Those Are The People Who Get The Least Money. The People Who Have The Most Are People Like Orthopedic Surgeons, Interventional Cardiologists. And My Point Isn't That There Is Something Wrong With Heroism.

Just Using A Checklist Requires [doctors] To Embrace Different Values From Ones We've Had, Like Humility, Discipline, Teamwork.