How good doctors make complicated decisions

In medicine there are always complicated, often stressful situations to manage, but experience teaches calm in high pressure moments, writes Dr Bruce Powell, with medical student Chelsea Bolland.

I mentor medical students whenever I get the chance. I do it because I enjoy it, but also because it helps me remember what medicine is like before experience changes how you think.

Recently, a student I work with told me about something that happened on the wards that unsettled her.

She was following a medical registrar during a shift when a MET call came through. For those...

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