Meet the CancerDoc

This "budding oncologist" is live-blogging his first job search. He also has thoughts about residency work hours:

...in the process of restricting hours, the new rules have altered the work ethic of most trainees. Whereas in times only a couple years ago, residents would work incredibly long hours and stay at work "until the job was done", now doctors go home at precise hours, regardless of whether the patient is unstable or needs something. They simply hand them off to the next shift, like in the emergency room. This "shift" mentality, I believe, contributes to an erosion of work ethic that will eventually rear its head later in a trainee's life when they are the attending physician. It is hard to strike the balance. While patient safety is paramount, the fact of the matter is that you will never train tomorrow's physicians without exposing them intensely to today's patients. That is the difficult reality that most laypeople do not understand...

Stop by his new blog and say hi!

In other news, Cheerful Oncologist's office practice is inspiring some anxiety, as well as fine writing...