What Residency Looks Like LXVII: Pimping

[Image description: A pair of eyeglasses rest on a printout of a Commentary essay entitled "The Art of Pimping" next to a bowl of summer salad.]

Sometimes residency looks like eating lunch while reading the classic tongue-in-cheek essay about pimping--the practice of a senior physician or surgeon riddling more junior medical or surgical trainees with questions "like a Gatling gun." It was written by a graduate of my program 30 years ago and makes fun of the psychological games everyone in the medical hierarchy plays when they feel the need of enhancing their own status at the expense of someone else.

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