Caliri: Medical training and residency condition doctors against critical questioning

“I think to survive In medical training, you can't ask too many questions, right? In medical school, if you start asking, why am I memorizing this list of antibiotics and the bugs they match up to, they'll say, you know, just memorize the list. This isn't the time to be asking questions. You need to pass the exam. And this is something that just sort of like perpetuates in, in through residency. And so you're kind of trained not to ask too many critical questions, but some iconoclasts somehow make it through that system and thank goodness for them.”

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