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Girl Meets Tumor

Ms. Li recalls, “On one especially humid afternoon, we learned the head and neck examination. Then, my classmates and I learned I had a tumor.”

Use to:

  • Consider how you might treat a peer's privacy differently than that of your friends and family outside of medical school. Why might this happen?
  • How can we avoid such behavior?
  • How should Ms. Li's teachers have handled this situation? What should others in the room have done? Would you have had the confidence to speak up in such a situation?

Annals of Internal Medicine is the premier internal medicine academic journal published by the ܼˮ̳ (ACP). It is one of the most widely cited and influential specialty medical journals in the world.

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