S02E04: When Your Values Conflict with the Profession with Dr. Sharon L. Stein

The Intentional Surgeon with Sharon L. Stein, MD · Feb 17, 2025 · 23m

In this episode of The Intentional Surgeon, we are going to talk about what happens when your values conflict with the profession of medicine. We are going to talk about how we, as surgeons, became indoctrinated into the profession of medicine. How we were rewarded for our service and the price we paid to belong. And we are going to talk about why, when we begin to feel that our values might conflict with the system, it is so difficult to call that out.

So many of us have had a patient who needed something, and the hospital, the insurance company, someone told us that we couldn't do that for…