During Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners, I overhear many different kinds of conversations from my cousins, most of whom are practicing physicians. They talk about their kids’ performance in school, celebrities, daily life, new gadgets and the like. Then, there are the conversations about the practice of medicine: different surgical procedures, global healthcare, rare health conditions, electronic health records, daily life in the clinic and the challenges they face as physicians. I particularly like to tune in when those conversations come up, mainly because they give me some insight into the practice of medicine from people with a similar cultural background to me.
Among the challenges I hear during those dinner conversations, cultural,
Among the challenges I hear during those dinner conversations, cultural,