Cowboys and Pit Crews (Harvard Medical School commencement address, The New Yorker)
The piece opens with
Medicine's complexity has exceeded the individual capabilities of doctors
Their wordsThese are not the cause of their unease, however. They are symptoms of a deeper condition—which is the reality that medicine’s complexity has exceeded our individual capabilities as doctors.
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