Just a little taste: "I think this is why medical students transit so easily from the “pre-cynical” first few years of medical school to the “cynical” years on wards and in clinics—a transition that many educators recognise is an unintended consequence, a disabling effect of medical education......"
Read it in full here: The divided self, hidden values, and moral sensibility in medicine.
Checky--that was an excellent commentary article and thanks for drawing attention to it. I remember reading a great book that shows the transition from altruism to dark sarcasm/jadedness that occurs in medical training while I was in medical school. I highly recommend it to anyone out there that has not read it. "The House Of God" by Samuel Shem. The author's real name is Stephen Bergmen and he is a professor of Psychiatry for a Harvard affiliated hospital. God Bless.
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