Performing medicine: the role of theatre in medical education.

摘要

On one of my recent walks through the Cleveland Clinic, I noticed (once again) a beautiful dog sharing with me the pedestrian walkway over Carnegie Avenue. Who could have imagined, even as recently as a decade or so ago, a dog pawing along the antiseptic halls of our healthcare institutions ? Of course, he had a trainer, was on a leash and was doing his work for a purpose-no doubt a well-defined one-backed up by studies of the salutary effect of unconditional canine love on the health of patients.