Posted October 26, 2018
As a US-medical student in 2011, Shawn Barnes underwent the standard, AMA-sanctioned training on his way to becoming a licensed medical doctor. But an experience in his third-year of medical school would haunt him for years to come. Shawn was so bothered by the experience that he expressed his concerns to the school administration, only to be met with indifference. He pressed on in his effort to expose the problem, writing a paper on the matter that was published in 2012. What happened during his medical education, considered the gold-standard in the United States, that made such a negative impression on this young physician? Read more.