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Article: Surgical theatre, gifted performances: the changing moral economy of surgical training.
- Article from:
- Journal of Australian Studies
- Article date:
- March 1, 2005
- Author:
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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.
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