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Volume 329:1971-1972 December 23, 1993 Number 26
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A Student's View of a Medical Teaching Exercise

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Physicians are usually careful to explain the purpose and format of a teaching session when asking a patient to take part. Failure to do so when the patient is poorly educated or of a different cultural background may seriously disturb the patient and mislead the other participants. Consider the events at a recent neurology conference at a Boston teaching hospital.

The resident began by describing the case of "a 52-year-old postmenopausal black woman with a history of breast cancer at age 46 treated by mastectomy and radiation." She went on to say:

A year ago the patient had back, leg . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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