“Nobody thinks you’ll graduate intern year.”

“But this is just gossip…”

“But a consensus of the experts
is what medical education
Is.”

“There are no facts at all in these assessments.”

“Yes. You haven’t made a critical error that hurt a patient.
Yet...”

“But you’re below the level of a medical student.

Your two greatest weaknesses are,
medical knowledge and
clinical competency.”

“Oh, and patients report you lack
compassion.”

“I think…
There’s a chronic underlying level of
incompetence
and every once in a while it
rises to the surface.”

“Well is there anything I have done right?”

[A staring silence.]

If you’ve ever wondered what
carved your doctor
into unfeelingness,

It was this.
Planted in their subconscious,
day by day,
like a thousand tiny splinters
festering in the
soul.

But some of us,
have
Tweezers.