It's fascinating reading these posts. It reminds me that a lot of practicing medicine is like parenting, and that there are "permissive" and "strict" practitioners in both fields. Also, both fields have "experts" who are uninvolved in the actual process who write erudite books and who judge our actions as negligent or not after the fact.

Fortunately, our kids eventually grow up. Sometimes our patients don't.


David Grauman MD
Department of Medicine
Commonwealth Health Center
Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands