Rewind. Time for the Jedi Mind Trick. I held the films out. “This patient isn’t an operative candidate. I don’t know if you could even biopsy this mass. It’s really in there.” I prayed his ego would take the bait. The radiologist turned and snatched the films from me then threw them up on the lighted wall on his left. “Oh yeah, I can hit this, no problem. I’ll do it tomorrow, about 9.” And that, folks, is the Art of Medicine.
From Salvatore Iaquinta’s very funny internship memoir, The Year THEY Tried to Kill Me. The closest thing to a modern The House of God since…The House of God.