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Opinion: Failure, not just success, should guide future doctors

Some advice to physicians in training and new physicians: Embracing your failures and learning from them will help you become the doctor you yearn to be.

Match Day, which rolled around this year on March 15, is arguably one of the most important days in a doctor’s life.

, medical students across the United States open cream-colored envelopes to learn what hospital residency programs they will be working in for the next few years. About half get their top choice. The rest don’t. It’s a small bump in a long road that’s sure to

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