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While there is no evidence that Hilson's surgeon was responsible for the infection, the hospital volunteered cash compensation to Hilson, which he accepted. And there are many things he knows today that he wishes he had known before his surgery. Only six months earlier, the physician operating on him, Dr. Michael McEnany, then 55, had resigned as chief of cardiovascular surgery at San Francisco Kaiser Permanente Medical Center after peers raised serious questions about his competencey. He had been forbidden to operate without another surgeon assisting. Hilson had no way of knowing that background, or that the medical board...
...paper, Farmer is an infectious disease physician and a medical anthropologist—a man who strives to understand the social and cultural causes of illness as well as directly treating them. But out in the field, he is much more than an accomplished academic and a talented doctor...
Farmer says in an e-mail that his Class Day speech will center on “what it means for a young physician to take the red pill,” a reference to the popular movie The Matrix and its hit sequel. In the movie, taking a red pill means abandoning a reassuring fantasy world and throwing oneself into the gritty, disheartening realities of an ongoing war for justice...
...Teaching is the fiscal orphan that no one wants to pay for,” she said. “[and] when you teach someone, that physician moves more slowly because he has to stop and explain and demonstrate...
...retiree who has adjusted to a surprisingly different direction while resolving the issues of ego and overidentification with his previous career is John Platt of Hilton Head, S.C. Platt was a surgeon in Tennessee for nearly 40 years and then an outpatient physician at a veterans' hospital on Parris Island, N.C., for an additional 10. Now, at 85, he works four days a week in the garden shop of the Hilton Head Wal-Mart, operating a forklift and keeping computerized accounts of stock. Always a plant lover, he shrugs off the unlikeliness of the job. "I didn't compare...