The author asserts that the medical student's after hours telephone management of a DVT establishes "character" and "moral"fiber. This ignores that teaching someone how to use sq lovenox is often best done in person, and in an integrated system there are pathways for acute care that may include the ER and acute care clinic. The author ha…
The author asserts that the medical student's after hours telephone management of a DVT establishes "character" and "moral"fiber. This ignores that teaching someone how to use sq lovenox is often best done in person, and in an integrated system there are pathways for acute care that may include the ER and acute care clinic. The author has an old fashioned view of the heroic individual doctor, on-call to her community 24 hours a day. That is a path to burnout, a luxurious scenario spun out by an academic physician.
The author asserts that the medical student's after hours telephone management of a DVT establishes "character" and "moral"fiber. This ignores that teaching someone how to use sq lovenox is often best done in person, and in an integrated system there are pathways for acute care that may include the ER and acute care clinic. The author has an old fashioned view of the heroic individual doctor, on-call to her community 24 hours a day. That is a path to burnout, a luxurious scenario spun out by an academic physician.