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BECOMING A PHYSICIAN Previous Volume 361:442-443 July 30, 2009 Number 5 Next

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"My intern can't stand Ms. Andrews and refuses to meet with her. He says I'll do all the communicating for the team and that I shouldn't be too nice to her so she won't split us. The attending says she's a classic borderline." So began a student's presentation on "Difficult Patient Rounds," my unofficial name for an exercise I started a few years ago with groups of four to five third-year students during their medicine clerkship. As a psychiatrist and card-carrying biopsychosocialist, I wanted to offer students some practical tips for working with patients who drove their caregivers to distraction. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School — both in Boston.

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