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I see a fair number of doctors every year because, you know, chronic illness.
About half the time, they have residents or students with them.
I enjoy being a part of their education and training because that also happens to be my job.
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About half the time, they have residents or students with them.
I enjoy being a part of their education and training because that also happens to be my job.
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I also understand how things are made.
When I eat a salad, I know human beings cut those greens in a field. Food doesn’t walk to my store. It’s grown and harvested by people. Then washed, shipped & handled by others.
I respect the people involved in the things I consume. 2/12
When I eat a salad, I know human beings cut those greens in a field. Food doesn’t walk to my store. It’s grown and harvested by people. Then washed, shipped & handled by others.
I respect the people involved in the things I consume. 2/12
The people that make and do and grow things for me to consume are human beings.
They are not printed in a factory and they aren’t grown in a lab. 3/12
They are not printed in a factory and they aren’t grown in a lab. 3/12
Like me, they started as novices and became masters.
With time, training and practice. 4/12
With time, training and practice. 4/12
When I engage with the world and its people, I recognize training everywhere. I recognize my role as a consumer but I also have a role—a responsibility—in education and training others. 5/12
I know people who view the world a different way. They feel that they deserve to be served only by masters at the top of their craft.
Everyone who makes or does or treats them must be experienced and at the top of their game. 6/12
Everyone who makes or does or treats them must be experienced and at the top of their game. 6/12
Hidden in this attitude is something I find despicable.
It is the attitude that novices should practice on “other people.” 7/12
It is the attitude that novices should practice on “other people.” 7/12
People who refuse to be cared for by newbies want the newbies to practice on someone else.
Who? Poor people. Marginalized people. Unimportant people. People of color. Someone else. 8/12
Who? Poor people. Marginalized people. Unimportant people. People of color. Someone else. 8/12
This attitude of superiority is reprehensible to me. I do not engage with the world to take its best and leave the rest for people less fortunate than me.
I don’t believe there is a category of people who deserve to be used for training doctors. 9/12
I don’t believe there is a category of people who deserve to be used for training doctors. 9/12
I believe we all owe a contribution to training new people in every field, knowing that training is essential in the process of achieving mastery and making experts. No number/
To me, letting rookies learn while caring for me is like any of a thousand other small sacrifices I make in order to be a part of the world instead an exploiter of it. 10/12
Not littering on a street I don’t live on.
Taking a vaccine.
Following the law of the land.
Considering the feelings of strangers.
Letting people off the elevator before I get on.
All these things are responsibilities I accept. 11/12
Taking a vaccine.
Following the law of the land.
Considering the feelings of strangers.
Letting people off the elevator before I get on.
All these things are responsibilities I accept. 11/12
I’m not here to get the best for myself.
I’m here to engage with a world that is always learning and training and becoming more capable.
Sometimes I get a master and sometimes I get a student. This is the inevitable truth of engaging with a real world. 12/12
I’m here to engage with a world that is always learning and training and becoming more capable.
Sometimes I get a master and sometimes I get a student. This is the inevitable truth of engaging with a real world. 12/12
