Matt Morgan: Healthy competition and incompetence

You made it. You were probably one of the top students in school and did better than your childhood friends in exams. You may have played sport at a high level, aced your musical grades, or performed on stage in lead roles. Even if getting into medical school was a struggle, you overcame that. You persevered. You fought. You held on. Then the real competition began.You were now being compared with other students at university, trying to stay on the right of that bell curve of results. Yet you made it again. You graduated, only to start the jostle for training programmes, to pass more expensive exams, and to battle for jobs in the places where you wanted to live and work. Although we’re told that healthcare is a team sport, competition remains inherent for the people climbing through its structures. And many of us start and remain competitive by…
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