The Fallacy of ‘Giving Up’
January 26, 2015
(The Atlantic) – In order to become a board-certified physician in his residency training at the University of Pennsylvania, Volandes writes, “I was required to prove my competence with inserting central line catheters, leading Code Blues, performing lumbar punctures, drawing blood, and obtaining arterial blood-gas samples. But not a single senior physician needed to certify that I could actually speak to patients about medical care.”