Ilana Yurkiewjcz, a Harvard third-year medical student, writes eloquently about something that has bothered me in medical education for years... Bullying.
She writes about a minority of staff and clinicians across all ranks of staff who are profoundly impactful and are outright bullies.
What is interested me most is her description of those subtle "micro aggressions", subtle putdowns, shaming interactions, sarcasm, passive-aggressive and frankly bad behavior.
There was something very relieving with reading her article. It read like a summary of my resume. Beyond her frank observations is the course reality to what may be wrong, at least in part, with the educational system of physicians and other healthcare clinicians today. Sometimes I'm so ashamed to be associated with this world.
http://aeon.co/magazine/being-human/why-rude-doctors-make-bad-doctors/
Blogging the trek of an non-traditional, older dude through a traditional physician educational process in a non-traditional world. Some people go out and buy a muscle car for their midlife crisis (I miss my '70 Camaro), but I decided to go to medical school. It is in God's hands and it's a RUSH.
Being a 50 something medical-school graduate now isn't as "nuts" as everyone seems to think. Just getting prepared for the rest of my life
"Life isn't about finding yourself; It's about creating yourself" - George Bernard Shaw
"Life isn't about finding yourself; It's about creating yourself" - George Bernard Shaw
Just another Blue Man...
"One act of pure love in saving life is greater than spending the whole of one’s time in religious offerings to the gods." -Dhammapada
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. 
— James Thurber
"Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing at all." - Helen Keller
"Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out." - James Bryant Conant (1893-1978), Chemist and educator
