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New videos DAILY: https://bigth.ink Join Big Think Edge for exclusive video lessons from top thinkers and doers: https://bigth.ink/Edge ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our health care system right now prizes efficiency, rather than embedding an ethics committee throughout a patient's treatment. The challenge of being a medical ethicist is bringing "airy" concepts into clinical practice. Sometimes the solutions to ethical issues become established via legal precedent. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MATT MCCARTHY Matt McCarthy, MD, graduated from Harvard Medical School and went on to complete his internal medicine residency at Columbia University Medical Center. He is the author of two national bestsellers, "The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly" and "Odd Man Out." His newest book, "Superbugs," is on-sale now. McCarthy is also an assistant professor of medicine at Weill Cornell and a staff physician at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TRANSCRIPT: MATT MCCARTHY: When I graduated from residency training, I had finished four years in medical school, three years of internal medicine residency, and three years of subspecialty training in infectious diseases. I took a job as a staff physician at a hospital in Manhattan. And it was a teaching hospital. And I suddenly found myself surrounded

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