Teach your children
2011; BMJ; Volume: 3; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1136/jnis.2010.004556
ISSN1759-8486
Autores Tópico(s)Diversity and Career in Medicine
Resumo> Teach your children well > > Their Father's hell did slowly go by > > And feed them on your dreams > > The one they picked > > The one you know by > > Don't you ever ask them why > > If they told you, you would cry > > So just look at them and sigh > > And know they love you > > —Graham Nash, Deja vu , 1970 One day about a week into my tenure as a staff neurointerventionalist I called my mentor, Joe Horton, during a moment of shear emotional exhaustion. I told him I had just participated in the most difficult diagnostic angiogram I had ever experienced. Joe was surprised and somewhat chagrined by my admission. He thought he had trained me during my fellowship to deal with any obstacle that human anatomy and physiology could throw at me. So he asked me to be more specific about the technical aspects of the procedure which had given me so much trouble. I then told him the source of my anxiety was not from any technical barriers which I had personally faced but from the dyspeptic feeling of observing my fellow while he was performing his first cerebral angiogram. There are few tasks as difficult but ultimately as rewarding as …
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