The hidden costs of teaching surgery: an academic surgeon’s perspective

KevinMD February 3, 2023
Arthur Williams, MD

I ran across one of those bordering-on-sappy Facebook posts that always pull me in, asking people to describe their job poorly and make it comically accurate. The photographer admitted she would flash clients, shoot someone, and then frame someone else. The bartender alluded to being a psychiatrist, marriage counselor, babysitter, and thirst quencher. You get the picture.

I am sure that each specialty in medicine has its own pithy, confuscating sound bite that describes perfectly what they actually do all day that the public may or may not recognize as part of the job description.

When I thought about my role in medicine and what I have primarily done in the last twenty-five years, I realized why my vocation has...

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