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Essay · Mentorship
"How many brilliant clinicians has our profession lost simply because someone decided to make them feel small?"
April 30, 2026 · 5 min read

Eating our young: it's time to change the CRNA clinical culture.

The hardest part of clinicals isn't always the physiology or the pharmacology. It's the culture — how we treat each other, and especially how we treat our students. Leslie on what needs to change in the OR, and why it starts with us.

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