Revision

You think my comment yesterday unbelievable ? Let me tell you a real story:

For some years, our medical students (and their teachers) noted that by the time they start the final year, they have forgotten much of the clinical (medical and surgical, I mean) skill they learned in their third year.

Seeing all these comments, a group outside the solar system decided to arrange some kind of re-training just before the doctors-to-be begin the senior clerkship.

The idea was sent to Pluto; several inhabitants there decided to have a two-week course for the revision of clinical skill (and another two weeks for the surgeons). Their plan was, however, highly innovative (by the definition of Humphrey Appleby): Each morning, the students would be shown how to examine a particular system; in the afternoon, they would go to the ward and practice.

Of course, it was soon realized that our patients would be no different from comfort women (慰安婦) if the whole class of 140 medical students march up all at once to the ward and do, for example, cardiovascular examination.

At that time, the execution of this comforting idea was passed to a group on Saturn ...