My experience of ethics at medical school has been patchy, at best.1 Mostly lectures. The definitions of beneficence, non-maleficence, autonomy, and justice learned by rote for exams and then ignored again. Holistic care mentioned once or twice. Maybe in a joke about orthopaedic surgeons. No one can really remember.
And then reality. My grandfather coughing blood. Losing weight. He smoked for 60 years. What did we expect?
Almost a …