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If you want to get plenty of complaints, or possibly sued, as a consultant, then neglect the wards. If you want to be disliked by the nurses and have ungrateful patients, then neglect the wards. If you want to become the cliche of the 'technical surgeon' obsessed with operating, then neglect the wards. On that last point, the best surgeons also tend to be the most assiduous at ward work and knowing their patients. There are no surgeons who are so good at the cutting stuff that we should ignore their failures in care elsewhere.
If you want to go home content and banish that lingering unease in the back of your mind, then do a ward round.
Here is a very perceptive piece by, God forbid, an anaesthetist on this very topic, one to which I will return. And note this also: the best trainees are those who are on top of their inpatient duties
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