Doctor Franklin’s Medicine Stanley Finger

Doctor of Medicine (MD)

• are introduced to clinical work and patients almost as soon as they arrive on campus. • learn medicine using an integrated, system-based approach. • are treated as junior colleagues by faculty members. • are taught the science of medicine infused with the skills of communication and compassion. • learn how to learna skill they will call on throughout their careers in the quickly changing fiel...

Doctor of Medicine (MD)

• are introduced to clinical work and patients almost as soon as they arrive on campus. • learn medicine using an integrated, system-based approach. • are treated as junior colleagues by faculty members. • are taught the science of medicine infused with the skills of communication and compassion. • learn how to learna skill they will call on throughout their careers in the quickly changing fiel...

Doctor of Medicine (MD)

A course of medical education for the MD degree ordinarily consists of a minimum of four years of study. Students recommended for the Doctor of Medicine degree must be of good moral character, they must have completed an entire academic course of instruction as matriculated medical students, they must have passed all required subjects or the equivalent and have received satisfactory grades in t...

Using Stanley Cavell

In the performing art of medicine: the doctor as actor.

How much of a doctor–patient interaction is acting by one or both participants? Doctors seem to dislike the word acting as a descriptor for the part they play in a clinical consultation, preferring words like professionalism to account for their approach and behaviour with patients. Having no difficulty with the concept of patients being cast in a sick role, they demur from the notion of themse...