I was struck recently by the concluding sentences of an article written by Nathaniel Morris, a Harvard Medical School student. Note his final words. “. . . health care providers must discern when to apply the powerful instruments at their disposal and when to carefully hold back. It often just comes down to clinical judgment, a skill I’ve yet to learn but I’m hoping to find in my education.”
Here is a student at the beginning of his career, recognizing something he calls judgment, a palpable skill he hopes to discover not in school, if we take him literally, but in his education. It seems obvious that what young Mr. Morris perceives as a need represents a strain of wisdom that comes only with age and experience, a perspective that one’s culture may teach, although ours often fails in this one respect. Continue reading…
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