Galveston County Daily News, June 9, 2009
Dr. Michael Warren, in his weekly column, writes that in order for medical students not to lose sight of caring for their patients, it would be a good idea for medical students to learn first-hand what a typical experience for a patient might be like. "First, we could dress the doctors in those specially tailored hospital gowns and let them walk out in the hallway with ‘you know what' exposed. Then we could feed them hospital food. Give them all some of the special treatments like enemas, and put tubes everywhere. We could wait until they just fall asleep and wake them up to ask them if they want a sleeping pill. We could wake them up again to take their temperature and blood pressure.... Caring is still the key for successful medical care."