Danielle Ofri, M.D., Ph.D., an associate professor of medicine at NYU School   of Medicine, exposes the darker side of transitioning from the classroom to   clinical medicine–students come in selfless and empathetic and leave jaded and   embittered.

Empathy and moral reasoning begin to erode during the third year of medical   school, with students daily witnessing both patients and doctors experience   fear, anger, grief and humiliation, Ofri wrote in Slate