We do learners a disservice when we frame our success with luck. Stories that credit happenstance rather than our own doing teach that circumstances have more control over our success than we do.

What we as teachers can do is take an interest in the non-negotiable of trainees and help them understand how we, ourselves, integrate our non-negotiables into the demands of life.

Specialty disrespect is a pervasive behavior in medicine. And, with the worsening of healthcare silos and the decline of face-to-face interactions, specialty disrespect is only getting worse.

“Do you mind if I sit on your bed?” It was my third year of medical school during my internal medicine rotation. My attending asked this question to a patient we were seeing on the wards. The question itself struck me as interesting.