I’ll tell you what I tell my six-year-old niece and four-year-old nephew. This is a good teachable moment. Power does not mean credibility. Status does not mean credibility.
‘The gratification that one gets when you are able to save a person's limb, that's pretty big . . .. That kind of a win doesn't occur too often in family medicine.’
The healthy, fair-skinned, unhappy boy asked me to look at a rash on his arm. The rash had begun as a small ‘pimple’ over two weeks previously, and was enlarging.