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The hidden curriculum teaches that endurance is virtue, silence is safer, and that being treated as less than human is the price of admission. Deontology rejects that logic entirely. If residents are people of intrinsic value, then their dignity cannot be suspended for training. Their humanity is not a negotiable cost.
Kate Buhrke, DO
Kate Buhrke, DO
February 8, 2026
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