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Despite my idea that I wasn’t going to write more about it, I might as well record this thing for posterity. I’d like to describe in detail, both for myself, for my wife, for my future children, what it was like to survive “the worst hazing in all of medicine.”
The first thing you must understand is the way that licensing works. Licenses are doled out by states, and certain fiefdoms have been established around the US where you have to take a certain test to practice dentistry there. So, you do not receive your license, that is, your legal permit to do the job of a dentist, from your dental school. You receive it from the state in which you plan to work. Thus, upon graduation, you receive your school’s diploma and then you submit materials to apply for a license. I think that all of us working in Minnesota will apply for “Licensure by Exam”. That requires the following:
Doctor and Patient - The Hidden Curriculum of Medical School:
“Don’t worry about missing that class,” our teacher said when we sheepishly relayed the reason for our breathless arrival. “You can’t learn ethics or compassion. You either have it or you don’t.”
Not having anything go really truly catastrophically poorly at the clinic yet, I have been wondering how I will explain to a patient when, inevitably, things go wrong. For example: “Whoah, this does not fit.” Or, “That tooth really did not last long at all.”
Dr. Oz, on learning to treat patients once you become a doctor:
When I went into medicine, I assumed, by the time I was done with medical school, I would understand it all. We think that if we study hard enough, we’ll understand how the whole body works. Then you go into practice and someone sits across from you, very sophisticated, smart person, and they haven’t read the book you have read. They have symptoms, and problems, and complaints that just don’t fit what you’ve actually learned seems to be how the body works. So you have two ways of dealing with that — you can assume they’re crazy and ignore them, or you can say “you know what, I think there’s something else going on out there.” So, now, there are a lot of physicians who seem to believe there is something to it [acupressure].