Editor’s Note: A lovely account that gives credit to patients and their families for inspiring a stimulating and gratifying career. “I went from being ‘the worst resident who had ever lived during my home institution-based orthopaedic rotations to being the best...
Editor’s Note: A nurturing and inspiring residency experience followed by an employment situation which lacked those attributes. “I did not start medical school with orthopaedics in mind.” I assumed that I would become a pediatrician. Interestingly, I was miserable...
Editor’s Note: This gift of clinical sense and career destiny was priceless. I was lucky enough to be included in a residency class of brilliant thinkers, future department chairmen and leaders in orthopaedic surgery. They were good men and had my respect. They did...
Editor’s Note: This account reminds us of the power of humor to reduce tension and level the playing field. Before beginning my fellowship, I took time off to make some money and to finish my first pregnancy. I worked as locum tenens in a practice that had never had...
Editor’s Note: A major professional challenge and how it was addressed. It is easy to say that it was the hardest case of my life. I was well along in the pregnancy of my first child and was on call at the worst trauma hospital in the city. The patient was a woman...
