Post Author: Scrub, MD

Can pit crews really heal medicine?

Physician
May 17, 2012

In his recent TED talk, Atul Gawande harkens back to the central thesis of his recent book The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right that medicine has become too complex for physicians to act as cowboys and instead should adopt the paradigm of a pit crew, utilizing teamwork and the humble checklist to solve problems and avert emergencies.

Is this really true though? Can “pit …

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During the holidays, our goal should be to provide a holiday for our patients

Education
August 6, 2011

During Christmas holidays, many medical students, interns, and residents will not be celebrating the holidays with their families. Instead, they will be on call, or night shifts, or just long schedules, taking care of patients.

For life and death, sickness and health, do not take holidays, and nor should our compassion for taking care of those who are in trying times. I recall working last year on Christmas Eve at …

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Will medical school as we know it exist in a decade?

Education
December 31, 2010

A century ago in the U.S.,  the American Medical Association (AMA) created the Council of Medical Education (CME) to evaluate the standard of medical education.

In 1908, the committee recruited the Carnegie Foundation to survey the 155 medical schools operating at the time in order to see whether they met the standard of medical education set by the CME. The Carnegie Foundation in turn asked Abraham Flexner, a professional educator, to …

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