I’m a PENN med graduate who also completed a residency and fellowship there, a total of ten years! I was well trained, and the near absolute meritocracy of the institution was legendary. We had many minority and women faculty, trainees, and professors. Not enough in the surgical specialties but that was not due to any institutional preju…
I’m a PENN med graduate who also completed a residency and fellowship there, a total of ten years! I was well trained, and the near absolute meritocracy of the institution was legendary. We had many minority and women faculty, trainees, and professors. Not enough in the surgical specialties but that was not due to any institutional prejudices.
The institution Dr. Goldfarb describes now is foreign to my experience, and saddens me tremendously.
They just got hit with a $183 million verdict in a “bad baby” case. Maybe that’s what it will take, if indeed that case revolves around incompetent physician care, to move the needle back toward educating excellence and advancing merit over some social ideal that doesn’t exist in human disease and injury.
I’m a PENN med graduate who also completed a residency and fellowship there, a total of ten years! I was well trained, and the near absolute meritocracy of the institution was legendary. We had many minority and women faculty, trainees, and professors. Not enough in the surgical specialties but that was not due to any institutional prejudices.
The institution Dr. Goldfarb describes now is foreign to my experience, and saddens me tremendously.
They just got hit with a $183 million verdict in a “bad baby” case. Maybe that’s what it will take, if indeed that case revolves around incompetent physician care, to move the needle back toward educating excellence and advancing merit over some social ideal that doesn’t exist in human disease and injury.