Abstract
A third-year student at an urban teaching hospital is on her pediatrics rotation. One morning she finds that a new patient has been admitted, a seventeen-year old boy who has been transferred from a private hospital in the countryside. The receiving physicians have been alerted that the boy injured himself in a fall, causing potential bleeding to internal organs. The boy, however, does not profess to be in any pain. When his abdomen and other areas are palpated, he gives a forced laugh and says that it tickles. ...
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2007
Recommended Citation
Jacob H. Rooksby, Ethics Education in Medical Schools: Problems, Practices, and Possibilities, 10 Quinnipiac Health L.J. 181 (2007).
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