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. 2013 Sep;63(614):485. doi: 10.3399/bjgp13X671713

I Doctored Lonely and Thought Aloud

Samir Dawlatly 1
PMCID: PMC3750786

I doctored lonely and thought aloud
  With all my patients’ woes and ills,
‘Til I found a website that vowed,
  To improve my doctoring skills;
I’d choose whatever module pleased,
  And press the buttons on my PC.

Or Mac if I was so inclined
  And learn at any time of day,
Innumerable lessons all online,
  I didn’t even have to pay:
Ten thousand answers right by chance,
  To make my PDP enhanced.

The case vignettes were clear, but they
  Were not like patients that I see;
So website bookmarks thrown away,
  For lack of non-conformity!
It all looked flash — but little thought
  Was needed for the credits sought:

Now I don’t want to even try
  The biologically skewed
Questions, that have been formed by
  Some computer boffin-dude;
No progress in consulting skills,
  To help me, my patients, and their ills.


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