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Shame in Medicine: 5. Indoctrination

The Nocturnists

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ECGs Aren't What You're Used To

"I'm a fourth-year medical resident in Canada and my story begins when I was a third-year medical student," she says. "My preceptor asks me okay I want you to interpret this ECG for the patient that I just saw." She then launches into berating him, saying he should have known what an ECG looked like but didn't notice it as a bad sign. They were just going on and on and it wasn't even in a private setting. It was very much open to everybody else who was in that space. 'I feel quite stuck. I don't know what to do and I can't really go anywhere'

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