Medicine's progress, one setback at a time
By lisa Sanders, M.D. NY times March 16, 2003
"A decade ago, I stood alongside my 99 fellow freshmen as we were welcomed into the ranks of medicine in a "white coat ceremony.'' Here, on our first day of med school, we were presented with the short white coats that proclaimed us part of the mystery and the discipline of medicine. During that ceremony, the dean said something that was repeated throughout my education: " half of what we teach you here is wrong, unfortunately, we don't know which half.'"