Video
Physician Burden Like No Other Profession
Dec 05, 2012
Tessa Hadlock, MD discusses a physician’s unique burden of holding an individual’s life in your hands. A slip of the knife or a missed diagnosis is a possibility that cannot be far from a clinician’s thoughts when working with patients.
1 minute 15 seconds
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