Educating for Professionalism

The joy of being asked to review a book is that sometimes you end up reading something whose title alone would have convinced you that there were better uses of your time. Jude the Obscure would have approved of the title of this book. Some of the contents are equally woolly. However, there are three chapters that have made me think harder than I have for a long time. “Not difficult in an orthopaedic surgeon,” I hear you say. Well, I challenge anyone involved in medical school curriculum design to read the chapters by …