Abstract
IT IS too late for first impressions and too early for memoirs, yet I want to try to leave some record of what I have learned in medical school. This is not an essay on electrolyte changes in chronic renal failure or the differential diagnosis of hemoptysis. Rather, it tells what one medical student gleaned incidentally, between the lines of the formal medical school instruction. The last 3 1/2 years have changed the way I think of myself. I have gone from considering myself a "layperson" to thinking of myself as a physician. Much of this transformation is related to the body of information I have been so busy accumulating—information that has allowed me to participate in decisions concerning the welfare and fate of my patients. But a large part of the change is due to my exposure to "medical" experiences rather than to the accumulation of bits of information.
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