Account #6

Account #6

Truths Learned

Editor’s Note:  An existential crisis. I trained in a large metropolitan hospital system where residents taught residents.  “See one, do one, teach one” as the saying goes.  This was before surgical training labs.  Education occurred while operating on live patients...
Account #5

Account #5

Triumph

 Editor’s Note:  This account describes an epiphany experienced during the orthopedic junior resident year.  One night midway through my orthopedic junior residency year, I was on call at a large inner-city hospital with a very busy emergency department.  Patients...
Account #4

Account #4

Career Enhancing Experiences

Editor’s Note: The path to becoming an orthopaedic surgeon can be circuitous.   This story is similar in many ways to that experienced by Dr. Ruth Jackson, the first Board Certified Orthopedic Surgeon, who was told “no” at many points during her education and career....
Account #3

Account #3

Career Enhancing Experiences

Editor’s Note: An adverse occurrence during early career development at an academic medical center.  Through the experience I gained as an adolescent working in my mother’s internal medicine office, I developed a sense of how medical practices are run.  This was...
Account #1

Account #1

Truths Learned

Editor’s Note: This account involves 2 years of early career development & decisions made during that timeframe. As a senior orthopaedic trainee, I was asked to drive a visiting foreign professor around our city. As this orthopaedic surgeon was well known and well...