0 present participle of doctor --
2 to remove the sexual organs of an animal in order to prevent it from producing young --
Because the tacit value system of the hospital is so potent in forming the trainee's view of doctoring, the explicit values embodied in ethics and humanities courses have little impact.
Medical students never know enough, never exhibit enough skill, and never harbor enough experience in the ways of clinical medicine to meet the demands of full-service doctoring.
Much in the same way the clinical correlates enliven basic sciences and encourage student attention, there are ample professional parallels between doctoring and studying to be one.
Its dissemination served ostensibly good public causes, yet demanded the doctoring of published speeches and selective recollection, concealment, or plain dishonesty about its proponents' own past actions or statements.
The narrative medicine movement is a way of reframing much of the knowledge and skills of good doctoring under the aegis of language, culture, and story.
If teachers fail to exhibit the values of doctoring because they view themselves as technicians, or because they are nonreflective about their professionalism, trainees learn to become like them.
Why have core competencies of doctoring and professionalism suddenly been driven out of the closet?
After suitable doctoring, some of it was used by local intellectuals to re-write a more explicitly patriotic rendering of the history of the period.
