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At 11:33am on October 14, 2008, Deirdre Bonnycastle said…: Hi Ken,
Thanks for the insightful comments. A couple of years ago, we started admitting arts grads. We found they took awhile to learn the science but they brought their humanism to the profession as a plus. We moved to a patient's centered, interprofessional curriculum as a result.

At 4:33pm on September 8, 2008, Deirdre Bonnycastle said…: I just had an interesting conversation with my brother-in-law who is an ER doc in the States. He is appaled at how many ER docs have poor patient interaction skills and thinks its because in physician centered medicine there is so much emphasis on diagnosis and technique that the patient is often forgotten in the shuffle.

At 9:51am on September 2, 2008, Deirdre Bonnycastle said…: Nurturing the healer, how incredibly important that is!

Do you think medical education can be reformed? How?

By nurturing the healer while it trains the professional

Relation to medical education?

McGill Grad 1960; Board certfied general surgeon 1969

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