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Alex Smith, MD (1 Posts)

Attending Physician Guest Writer

UCSF

Alex Smith is a physician-researcher at UCSF who blogs regularly at GeriPal.

We Are Morally Scarring Our Future Physicians

Published by Alex Smith, MD

Have you ever had that experience when you think what you’re doing is futile, and that thought goes through your mind: “Why am I doing this? I’m torturing him. This feels wrong.”

May 17, 2016

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