September 15, 2006
Acting Sick
At medical schools, actors help teach doctors how to 'fess up to mistakes -- and how to avoid them
Two days into her medical residency in psychiatry, Joanna Gedzior comes face to face with a doctor's worst nightmare: a patient who is incensed because instead of healing him, the doctor has injured him.
Fortunately for her, the whining executive with the splinted, bandaged nose is an actor who is only pretending to have suffered a seizure, keeled over, and broken his nose because
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