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Being Well while Doing Well — Distinguishing Necessary from Unnecessary Discomfort in Training

Lisa Rosenbaum

2024New England Journal of Medicine32 citationsDOI

Abstract

Maintaining medicine's commitment to excellence while remedying our failures requires distinguishing unnecessary trainee harms from necessary discomforts. Why is it so hard to make these distinctions?

Topics & Concepts

ExcellenceTraining (meteorology)PsychologyEngineering ethicsMedicineEngineeringPolitical scienceLawGeographyMeteorologyHealthcare professionals’ stress and burnoutInnovations in Medical EducationMedical Education and Admissions