February 13, 2004
Behind Every Symptom, a Story
The 45-year-old woman writhing in pain from an abdominal illness groans and snaps irritably at the medical student who is examining her. Her grimaces and grumbling are not articulate, but to a careful listener like Stephen Lee-Kong, a fourth-year medical student at Columbia University, they are part of a narrative that will explain what's wrong with her.
Teaching students how to "read" patients and listen as their stories unfold are goals of an innovative program here in what has
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