rejections: university of washington, vanderbilt bringing my interview:rejection list equal. i think. i actually forget already. wow.
i’ve been reading complicatons by atul gawanade. good book. giving me some ideas of what to write for the professionalism duke essay…
ch1 - the dilemma: “as patients, we want both expertise and progress. what nobody wants to face is that these are contradictory desires” — how steep the learning curve is for medicine, but how high the stakes are
ch2 - what is the role of doctors when machines may outperform us in diagnoses and so forth
ch3 - mistakes are unpreventable, but we need to aim for perfection anyway
ch4 - why doctors go to conventions even though they are a glitzy mess. also known as the lonely & isolating life of a doctor.
