TY  - JOUR
T1  - Patients, physicians and illness: Sourcebook in behavioral science and medicine.
AU  - Stone DB
Y1  - 1959/09/01
N1  - 10.1001/archinte.1959.00270090166033
JO  - A.M.A. Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 512
EP  - 512
VL  - 104
IS  - 3
N2  - It would be absurd to blame patients for dying, yet we blame students for failing. Why do they fail? Examine the question for a few unprejudiced moments. I suppose that if one can slough prejudice, one should accept the premise that most medical students are keen, hard working, and not unintelligent. If not, we should change our selection committees. If the premise is valid, we should examine medical education ruthlessly. Simply to disparage failure is facile, superficial and—in education—perhaps defensive, for, as Colton wrote, "Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer." Some students—and physicians—who fail are dull or idle. How many? Were they dull when they gained admission to medical school? If not, why have they changed? We dismiss our failures and punish our criminals, processes which are both practical and reassuring to us all. But
SN  - 0888-2479
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archinte.1959.00270090166033
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1959.00270090166033
ER  -