Dr. Richard Bosshardt
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190 appearances
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Feb 2025
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One thing I heard, which again is kind of disturbing, is that a lot of young surgeons are more concerned about comfort, work-life balance as it's often called, as opposed to learning to be the best doctor they can be. They want to know how much time off they have. They're very jealous of their time off. You know, 5 o'clock rolls around, they're done. They check out and they move out.
One thing that they found in asking all the program directors about the surgeons coming into their fellowships was that a large proportion did not have ownership of their patients. And ownership means that, you know, you take that patient as your patient. That's not just someone that you take care of for a 12-hour shift.
And then you turn them over to the next person and then, you know, you may not ever see that patient again or not until, you know, two or three shifts later. You know, so a lot of young doctors don't have ownership for their patient. I'm hearing that from colleagues.
No, I don't. I don't rotate the tires. I don't tune it up. That's exactly right. Yeah.
We still have a good medical system. It's probably still, in many respects, the best in the world. I have to believe that. But it's in disarray, and it's definitely, I believe, in decline. And I believe that it's going to take some effort, some will, from people that are willing to make those difficult changes.
I don't consider myself brave, but I appreciate that. Appreciate the thought. Thank you. Well, nobody else is. And I can't thank you enough for giving me a pedestal in which to speak.
Holding with an interesting little factoid.
Ibram Kendi, the author of Anti-Racism. Not a surgeon. Not a surgeon. He's an author of Anti-Racism.
He had colon cancer. Yeah. And he reported that he went to, he interviewed several surgeons, black surgeons, showed the white surgeon for his surgery because he was the most competent.
I appreciate it. Appreciate the time.
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