She was distraught. The patient, Mr. Collins, was an elderly Scottish man to whom she had grown attached. While crying uncontrollably, she learned that in the future she'd first have to comfort the patient's family so there would be no time for such a reaction. Now, as a practicing internist at an inner city hospital in Boston, Liebschutz has a different perspective. As I've gone along in my career, I've realized that you can't make everything better.
People are sick.
You need to just be there with them. Revelations like these are what took filmmaker Michael Barnes to Harvard Medical School 14 years ago. His mission was to chronicle the lives of seven students, documenting a remarkable metamorphosis as these men and women became part of the medical tribe. Hospital Hierarchy Having finished her undergraduate studies at Yale, Liebschutz was 24 when she entered Harvard Medical School, a background similar to many of her medically elite peers. The same could not be said for Tom Tarter.