The Evidence-Based Metaphor

Metaphor and analogy are necessary mainstays in medicine. Starting in medical school--where we learn to recognize strawberry tongues, barking seal coughs, and apple-core lesions of the colon--physicians frequently use vivid and creative imagery to describe disease processes. For medical students, th...

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Published inJAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association Vol. 317; no. 14; pp. 1411 - 1412
Main Author Trogen, Brit
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States American Medical Association 11.04.2017
Subjects
Communication
Comprehension
Education, Medical - methods
Evidence-Based Medicine
Health Education - methods
Humans
Imagination
Metaphor
Nostalgia
Parents - education
Patient Education as Topic - methods
Patient Simulation
Terminology as Topic
Vaccination Refusal
Vaccines - immunology
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ISSN0098-7484
1538-3598
1538-3598
DOI10.1001/jama.2016.17219

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Abstract Metaphor and analogy are necessary mainstays in medicine. Starting in medical school--where we learn to recognize strawberry tongues, barking seal coughs, and apple-core lesions of the colon--physicians frequently use vivid and creative imagery to describe disease processes. For medical students, these descriptions serve as whimsical mnemonics. Here, Trogen determines why they implement evidence-based medicine.
AbstractList Metaphor and analogy are necessary mainstays in medicine. Starting in medical school--where we learn to recognize strawberry tongues, barking seal coughs, and apple-core lesions of the colon--physicians frequently use vivid and creative imagery to describe disease processes. For medical students, these descriptions serve as whimsical mnemonics. Here, Trogen determines why they implement evidence-based medicine.
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Education, Medical - methods
Evidence-Based Medicine
Health Education - methods
Humans
Imagination
Metaphor
Nostalgia
Parents - education
Patient Education as Topic - methods
Patient Simulation
Terminology as Topic
Vaccination Refusal
Vaccines - immunology
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