A few months ago I took my recertification boards for internal medicine (IM). I remembered cramming and doing MKSAP at the end of third year medical residency which coincided with the beginning of first year infectious disease fellowship for my initial certification which I passed on first try. Now here I was ten years later. […]
The Care of the Patient (Peabody)
I recently attended an excellent Grand Rounds on Palliative Medicine. The speaker quoted Dr. Francis Peabody’s “…for the secret of the care of the patient is in caring for the patient” while apologizing for using a quote that “we’ve all heard over and over, I’m sure”. Well, I’m guess I’m one of those in medicine who […]