Article: Surgical theatre, gifted performances: the changing moral economy of surgical training.

The benevolence of doctors and nurses towards patients is a familiar theme in the stories that we tell each other about medicine. Fred Hollows and his work to reduce blindness in Indigenous communities is an obvious example; the role of the staff of burns units around Australia in treating the victims of the Bali bombings is another. But this article suggests a different, and perhaps startling, twist on stories about benevolence in medicine. It concerns the benevolence of patients towards trainee clinical staff, and particularly trainee surgeons.

The Surgical Training Paradigm

Doctors acquire their skills by practising on patients, and this article ...

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