Lawsuit resistant internists, chart wars and the decline of clinical teaching.

摘要

We have all witnessed a decline in the clinical teaching enthusiasm in recent times. Medicine has come a long way and effective bedside teaching has gone back a long way. From a learner's viewpoint, there are commonly felt but unspoken challenges to an effective clinical teaching which seem to have their roots in the growing legal complexities of the consumer age medicine. I humbly wish to bring two such present day scenarios to the reader's attention.