Forbes November 27, 2020
During Dr. Ben Corn’s first days as an intern, one of the first patients he saw had just been diagnosed with brain metastases. “The patient and family wanted to explore options,” he recalls. “I presented the clinical story to a senior physician. When I returned to the room with the professor, she did not make eye contact with the patient or console the panicking relatives by putting a hand on their shoulder. Instead, she announced: ‘Ya got brain mets. We’ll start the XRT treatment tomorrow.’ Our medical team then abruptly departed the room because we had to see ‘the next case.’”
At that moment, the young intern, whose decision to pursue medicine was influenced by his father’s passing from...
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