Notes

(Our discussion continued.)

"Although our distinguished medical officer must be very happy when he sees every student is using his notes, he is not the one to be blamed," I said, "You know, every generation of medical students have their own popular in-house notes. The point is, in the old days, we did not use it to do away with standard textbooks."

VW was silent for a while, and then he said, "Although I agree with your basic idea, it is slightly unfair to blame our students for not reading textbooks."

"Why?"

"You know, ever since our medical school changed the curriculum and adopted the system-based teaching, it is very difficult for our students to find suitable textbooks. For example, if we teach the anatomy, physiology, pathology and clinical aspects of the heart simultaneously, what book should they read?"

"You have a good point there," I nodded, "However, that excuse is not watertight - they could still read good books in their final year!"