What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them. In the nearly 20 years since I started medical school, I've seen the practice of medicine undergo a wholesale technological transformation. Take medical records as a simple example. I am 100% certain that today's medical students are much slower walkers than me. Because the days of sprinting on rounds to get ahead of the white coat phalanx, pull down a cabinet and open a three-ring binder chart to the next blank page before the intern reaches the door ended a decade ago.

What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them. In the nearly 20 years since I started medical school, I've seen the practice of medicine undergo a wholesale technological transformation. Take medical records as a simple example. I am 100% certain that today's medical students are much slower walkers than me. Because the days of sprinting on rounds to get ahead of the white coat phalanx, pull down a cabinet and open a three-ring binder chart to the next blank page before the intern reaches the door ended a decade ago.