Did you hear the one about the doctor who played a comedian who then played a doctor? Well, that's what Ken Jeong, who is also a medical doctor, did while performing his stand-up routine last week at the Stand Up Live Comedy Club in Phoenix, Arizona. pic.twitter.com/G0nMWb5wMM — Heather Holmberg (@TippedHatEnt) May 6, 2018This incident demonstrates what is an often overlooked and underrated skill that effective doctors need to have: the ability to shift roles and directions very quickly. So a doctor often has to shift from being a doctor to a non-doctor. But even while seeing patients, a doctor has to shift many, many times, adjusting to different patients and different situations.

Source: Forbes May 12, 2018 15:22 UTC