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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This conversation reminds me of an article on KevinMD the other day.  The first comment on the article makes me think of what you are talking about.  She believes that the competitive training at top institutions leaves you with doctors who are intolerant and lack empathy.

"I guess the question is this: does that level of intensity and competitiveness throughout training make for a good doctor? I am sure those trainees turn into physicians who know a lot. But do they also turn into physicians who have internalized an unusual amount of aggression that later in their practice becomes redirected towards their patients in the form of unconsciously dismissive attitudes towards patient complaints and concerns?

I think that there is a possibility that our training, by setting expectations that we be heroically tough, causes us to expect the same of our patients, without our even realizing it. Perhaps this is a factor in the well-documented "empathy slide" that we know medical students and residents experience during their training.

In an even bigger context, does this focus in our training also tend to turn us into people who are somewhat difficult to deal with in the larger world, because we are judgmental, critical and don't know how to play nicely with others? I wondered about that a few years ago while reading in the media about a CHOP fellow who became involved in an altercation in her home with an exterminator, with tragic results."

http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2015/09/how-call-rooms-reflect-the-personality-of-residency-programs.html

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we have used pediatricians with degrees from no-name medical schools.  They are nice but dumb.[/quote]

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