title: Wisdom in medicine.
abstract: The pathway to wisdom is a crooked one. Doctors have many opportunities to become wiser, and may do so in different ways and to different degrees. We suggest several means to facilitate their passage. There remains an additional key step. Seeking wisdom should become embedded in the culture of medicine. This may follow from the types of activities discussed above. We believe that wisdom is underrecognized as a life goal for medical practitioners and teachers. It is the pinnacle that every doctor should strive to achieve.
authors.affiliation: Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, 49 Jesse Hill Jr. Drive, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, USA. wbranch@emory.edu
authors.forename: William T
authors.initials: WT
authors.lastname: Branch
authors.forename: Gary A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Mitchell
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D015510:Clinical Medicine / Q000592:standards*; D004995:Ethics, Professional; D006801:Humans; D010819:Physician's Role; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations / Q000941:ethics*; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians' / Q000941:ethics*; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D014481:United States