4. "The Bullying Culture of Medical School"

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/09/the-bullying-culture-of-medical-school/?ref=health

In Pauline W. Chen's article, "The Bullying Culture of Medical School", states that medical students are often mistreated by younger doctors, who are teaching them. Chen starts the article by describing how a medical student feels when they see their "teacher" and how they feel very oppressed by them. "Like frightened little mice, we endured the treatment as an inevitable part of medical training, fearful that doing otherwise could result in a career-destroying evaluation or grade." She also says that the younger doctors would call the students "stupid" and "useless". The medical students would also feel that they are becoming more like the younger doctors in character and attitude. This made them feel very weird. Chen continues the article by saying how this kind of mistreatment must be stopped and how some medical schools are starting to take actions.

The author's purpose for this article is to inform people about what medical students need to endure during their years of training. Chen wants this kind of abuse to end. She wishes that medical students could go to school without worrying about their actions toward their "teacher" and how it could affect their own carrier. Chen wants that people would take action and stop this kind of treatment that the students receive. She is able to end the article with an example of a medical school who took action and were able to get some positive results. This article is meant to all types of people, but mainly the "teachers" of the medical students and the leader of medical school, so that they could change. Medical students needs to go through a lot so that they can finish their studies as a doctor, and people should support them with all they have.