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The Making, Breaking, and Renewal of a Surgeon-Scientist: A Personal Perspective of the Physician Crisis in America
An autobiographical narrative about how a middle-class youth endured personal turmoil and family crisis to achieve his lifelong goal of becoming a physician. He rose to become one of the outstanding eye physician-scientists of his generation...only to be disheartened and disillusioned by the ongoing tainting of medicine by bureaucrats, bungling administrators, and federal prosecutors - including the tragic scapegoating of three physicians during the whistle-blower initiated federal Medicare/Medicaid fraud investigation at the University of Washington.
The story is at once entertaining, informative, and poignant - providing a personal account accentuating why physicians and surgeons are fleeing medicine in droves and detailing what must be done to mend the cracks, before the once great American medical system crumbles to pieces.
The story is at once entertaining, informative, and poignant - providing a personal account accentuating why physicians and surgeons are fleeing medicine in droves and detailing what must be done to mend the cracks, before the once great American medical system crumbles to pieces.
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Published April 10, 2019
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A Thoughtful Perspective On The Triumphs, Trials, And Tribulations Encountered By Those Who Pursue A Career In Academic Medicine
Just like a multifaceted diamond can be viewed at from different angles, every event can be looked at and experienced in different ways depending upon one’s perspective and biases. As behavioral economics has shown so well, our actions are often influenced more by unconscious predilections than conscious rational thinking and decisions. This is the stuff of human interactions and outcomes that great writers like Shakespeare and others knew and portrayed so well. Dr. Wilson’s description of important events he experienced firsthand shows how one can be both successful as well as a victim of events beyond one’s control. It also depicts how the unintended consequences of well intentioned actions can have consequences that rival premeditated acts generated by the darker side of human nature. Academic medicine can be both a wonderfully fulfilling career as well as a demoralizing pursuit that requires all one’s fortitude and resiliency to navigate and endure successfully. This is a book that every physician considering a career in academics should seriously consider reading. At the very least, it will prepare him for what might lie ahead and set expectations that can help mitigate disappointments he is surely to encounter along the way.
Just like a multifaceted diamond can be viewed at from different angles, every event can be looked at and experienced in different ways depending upon one’s perspective and biases. As behavioral economics has shown so well, our actions are often influenced more by unconscious predilections than conscious rational thinking and decisions. This is the stuff of human interactions and outcomes that great writers like Shakespeare and others knew and portrayed so well. Dr. Wilson’s description of important events he experienced firsthand shows how one can be both successful as well as a victim of events beyond one’s control. It also depicts how the unintended consequences of well intentioned actions can have consequences that rival premeditated acts generated by the darker side of human nature. Academic medicine can be both a wonderfully fulfilling career as well as a demoralizing pursuit that requires all one’s fortitude and resiliency to navigate and endure successfully. This is a book that every physician considering a career in academics should seriously consider reading. At the very least, it will prepare him for what might lie ahead and set expectations that can help mitigate disappointments he is surely to encounter along the way.
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