Operating Under Pressure

As a brilliant but maverick neurosurgeon, you face an emergency disciplinary hearing for using an experimental stem cell procedure to save a terminal patient. The board claims you violated multiple protocols, but the patient's miraculous recovery has caught media attention. Your entire career hangs by a thread as you navigate this high-stakes interrogation.

Challenges

Survivors

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Difficulty

B1-B2

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Scenario Overview

Your Role

Dr. Sarah Chen, Senior Neurosurgeon

Conversation Partner

Dr. Victoria Sterling, Medical Board Chair

Setting

Austere wood-paneled hearing room, harsh overhead fluorescent lights casting stark shadows, five stern board members seated at an elevated platform

Location

State Medical Board Headquarters, 14th Floor

Learning Objectives

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Justify the emergency nature of the procedure without admitting protocol violations

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Demonstrate that standard treatments were attempted and failed

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Maintain professional composure while defending your ethical obligation to save lives

About This Scenario

How It Starts

“Dr. Chen, on the morning of April 15th, you performed an unauthorized Class-4 experimental procedure on a terminal patient without board approval or proper documentation. Before we proceed, do you acknowledge this basic fact?”

This is how Dr. Victoria Sterling, Medical Board Chair's greeting will start.

Practice Details

Scenario ID

#91

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