Episode 2 - Medical School Part II: Abuse of Many Kinds | New Healthcare Podcast

The healthcare system in America is broken in so many more ways than you know.

In the second episode of the ‘Dear Healthcare, It’s You’ podcast, Cohosts Dr. Elisha Yaghmai and Jo O’Hanlon continue with Elisha’s story through his medical education.

Elisha is finally able to transfer out of Tulane University after his medical school education was halted by Hurricane Katrina (and by backroom politics of the university stifling potential to keep learning elsewhere). But with a new school, he found himself in the of fire of an authority figure who used his position to abusive aims.

Jo and Elisha discuss how the environment of medical education in both medical schools he attended — including within the hospital and clinical settings — were hospital environments for abusive behavior to students. Ultimately, he argues, this type of abusive dynamic plays into the reason we have both bad doctors, and doctors who are jerks, to say it nicely.

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“The lesson you got was: Don’t say anything. You push back against these people, and they can ruin your career. You’re done, and no one will help you. They know what’s being done, they know why it’s being done, and no one is going to help you. So what do you learn from that? I'm either gonna stick my neck out there and potentially lose my head; or I'm just gonna shut up and keep trying to push, because someday I won't have to deal with this.”

“What it produces in the most pernicious part of it, are people [whose] best skill is hiding their weaknesses.”

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