Everybody Judges
Everybody judges. And unfortunately, most of them will do so with an insufficient understanding of why something is happening. I remember an incident from college that perfectly highlighted this point. We were in final year. It was early in the semester so a lot of people were actually interested in taking cases (an interest which would clearly diminish in a few months time). Problem was, none of us actually knew how to take cases back then. So it was usual practice to see case files to get an idea of what to do. We asked one of our seniors, who was a house surgeon there, for help but she promptly refused to show us the files. This infuriated some of my batchmates to the extent that they decided to complain to the HOD, who then granted the request to see the files. The feeling at the time was that this was some great victory for the juniors against the malevolent seniors. Flash forward a year or so and my thoughts on this incident completely changed. I was now house surgeon a