September 19th, 2005
"As a result of their participation in the process designed to turn them into technically competent physicians, interns and residents are forced to surrender the very ideals that brought them to medicine in the first place. We come to medicine with little knowledge or skill, but filled with humanism and commitment. As we train and are transformed into intellectually capable physicians, we become jaded, bitter and angry--angry at the hospital for demanding that we work so hard and so long, angry at the nurses and the rest of the staff who we believe treat us poorly, and worst of all, angry at the patients, the very people whom we've come to medicine to help, whom we now view as our enemies, the force that has come between us and our ability to get to sleep."
"ROTATIONS: The 12 Months of Intern Life"
by Robert Marion, M.D.