Dealing with People You Can't Stand: How to Bring Out the Best in People at Their Worst, 2nd Edition

11The Know-It-All

Young Dr. Bosewell was an intern with an avid interest in clinical nutrition. He pursued this interest in his spare time, of which there was precious little. Such was his dedication to health care that it was the rare week that went by when you couldn’t find Bosewell in the medical school library for a least a few hours, doing literature searches and reading books and articles. Unfortunately, his clinical supervisor was an elderly physician, Dr. Leavitt, who had made up his mind long ago on these matters. He considered nutrition to be little more than the basic food groups, and nutritional therapy to be a form of quackery. In ...