Comments on: Pregnant during residency http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/09/pregnant-during-residency.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:18:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/09/pregnant-during-residency.html#comment-87176 Anonymous Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:55:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/09/pregnant-during-residency.html#comment-87176 I'm going to go ahead and say something neanderthal because it is the elephant in the room: To the extent that we prioritize things over residency, our commitment to it IS reduced. <br/><br/>Rather than trying to obscure this fact, Walsh and others would be more convincing if they simply argued that is perhaps neither healthy nor productive to have physicians obsessively dedicated to the hospital to the detriment of their personal development.<br/><br/>Think about the 'best' leaders and instructors on the wards. Maybe surgery is different, but just about everywhere else the rock stars are the people who bring something from OUTSIDE the hospital in with them (knowledge, passions, etc) not the work-a-holics on their 3rd marriage. I’m going to go ahead and say something neanderthal because it is the elephant in the room: To the extent that we prioritize things over residency, our commitment to it IS reduced.

Rather than trying to obscure this fact, Walsh and others would be more convincing if they simply argued that is perhaps neither healthy nor productive to have physicians obsessively dedicated to the hospital to the detriment of their personal development.

Think about the ‘best’ leaders and instructors on the wards. Maybe surgery is different, but just about everywhere else the rock stars are the people who bring something from OUTSIDE the hospital in with them (knowledge, passions, etc) not the work-a-holics on their 3rd marriage.

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