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Glossed Over
Author(s) -
Kirschner Kristi L.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.1002/hast.49
Subject(s) - alma mater , medical care , medical practice , cover (algebra) , health care , law , sociology , medical education , medicine , political science , family medicine , engineering , surgery , mechanical engineering , dura mater
I open the glossy cover of my alma mater's alumni magazine. Images of new frontiers in medicine abound—state‐of‐the‐art research buildings and the latest in high‐tech hospital innovations. Nestled among the articles on cutting edge medicine is a feel‐good story about medical students. The article profiles volunteer medical students and their uninsured patients with chronic health conditions. At one site, they are touted as providing “the only medical care.” Indeed . I think back to my medical student days and cringe .