On being a good physician

Today with Dr. Kitchens we had the special privilege of reflecting on our memorable cases and our most recent reads. It was great to hear that we all indulge our passions and interests outside of medicine, whether it is through stories of harpooning and sinking ships or reading to your loved ones.

The medicine teams right now are reading:

My name is red by Orhan Pamuk

The Kiterunner by Khaled Hosseini

Complications by Atul Gawande

A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon

The Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende

Never Let me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Consumption by Kevin Patterson

Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyyat

Among others.

I'm glad we had the chance today to reflect on what makes us good physicians, and not just good doctors. Thanks Dr. Kitchens!

I'll leave you with some of the poetry we heard about today (Omar Khayyam):

Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,

A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse, and Thou

Beside me singing in the Wilderness

And Wilderness is Paradise now.