January 30, 2004
Lessons in Life and Death at Furman U.
Monday morning in a hospital's trauma unit with a man who lit himself on fire. Wednesday morning in a shelter with a hospice volunteer and a dying homeless man. Saturday night in an emergency room with a child-abuse victim.
The two undergraduate courses -- "Medical Sociology" and "Medical Ethics" -- are known at Furman University simply as "the medicine course." The seven-week program, offered every other year during the winter term, combines an intensive clinical internship with
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