Medical School to Middle Age

<p>Husband just sent me this link to a New York Times article about a PBS show that airs tonight (April 14). </p>

<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/health/07chen.html?_r=1&emc=eta1%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/health/07chen.html?_r=1&emc=eta1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>The most recent installment of the "Doctor's Diaries", a 22 year chronicle about seven former Harvard Medical School students.</p>

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The view through scopes — colonoscopes, arthroscopes and laparoscopes, to name a few — routinely aids physicians in narrowing diagnoses and arriving at a plan of care. But none is as illuminating as the one doctors refer to as the “retrospectoscope,” the scope of hindsight. The retrospectoscope brings startling clarity to the most mysterious disease processes: difficult decisions become brilliant choices, minor missteps turn into devastating errors, and the best of intentions can transform into deep regret and persistent what-if’s.

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<p>We didn't know about the series and missed the other installments - will have to try to find them on-line. This sounds like a very interesting and insightful show!</p>

<p>Yeah you can watch some of the clips online (at least you could a week or so ago). Its a very interesting story. The funny (or sad) thing is that basically every single one of them had gotten divorced (sometimes up to 5 times) due to their medical careers :eek:</p>

<p>The surgical residency program at my school was very excited last year – if she lasted one more year, they would (for the first time) graduate a female physician who had stayed married throughout the five- to seven-year program.</p>

<p>It’s true, you have to have a very understanding spouse with a life of their own. When both partners are physicians, it gets even trickier. My husband has two partners in the practice who are husband and wife with three young children. They do a daily balancing act to make it work. </p>

<p>Looking forward to watching the show tonight and will look up past episodes when time allows!</p>

<p>:(…so maybe remain unmarried in a sort of domestic partnership kind of thing? I have to say I worry about this alot.</p>