Marseille Breck – pre-arrival

I chose to attend the Marseille Experience because the farther I get into medical training, the more interested I become in patient safety initiatives. As I get closer to becoming an attending, the reality becomes clearer that I will have to decide for myself how I will practice medicine. Being a proceduralist, I have acquired a huge fund of knowledge from many different people who use different techniques and have different thought processes about similar disease processes and patients. At some point, I will need to distill this information down and decide how I will approach these same problems. Wrapped up in this decision is how to approach procedures in the safest most efficacious way for each and every patient. This becomes difficult in that while data exists for many basic principles, there are many patients who fall outside of prior randomized trial data. Face-to-face discussion with these patients is… Continue reading →