| Popis: |
To the Editor. — As a practicing pediatrician for 25 years, I would like to respond to Drs Moreno and Bergman’s commentary on “Resident Stress.” Residency training should prepare one to enter private practice, and, I fear, if residency training is softened too much, it will rob physicians in training of much valuable experience. Dr Moreno notes: “Residents will always struggle with setting a balance between their personal and professional lives.” This struggle does not diminish or disappear when one enters practice. They add: “The adage that patient needs invariably take precedence over family needs” is in fact the nature of what we do. As physicians we accept a commitment to those who entrust their care to us, and we and our spouses need to come to grips with this reality early in our training. In regard to pagers, paperwork, dealing with insurance companies, … |
