Dr Bruno Sachs addresses an audience of first year medical students: an extract from the writing of Martin Winckler, French doctor and writer
- 1 General Practitioner, St Mary’s, Isles of Scilly TR21 0NE, UK
- 227 Rue de la Boussinière, F 72000 Le Mans, France
- Correspondence to: D Jeffries Top Flat, Rocky Hill, St Mary’s, Isles of Scilly TR21 0NE, UK; djeffries{at}onetel.com
- Accepted 10 January 2006
Abstract
One of the authors of this paper (DJ) has been impressed by the work of the second author (MW) for some time. On reading one of his works, Les Trois Médecins, DJ was so struck by a particular passage that he attempted a translation. He received not only permission from Winckler to seek publication but also help with the translation. Along with that translation, which forms the body of this article, the passage has been set in context by MW, who also provides some explanation of it. It is DJ’s hope that the article will prove stimulating in its own right, and also lead some readers at least to seek out more of Winckler’s work.
Footnotes
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↵iOnly a small percentage of students admitted for the first year of studies will be selected for the full course in medicine.
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↵ii “Enseignement magistral”: literally, the teaching in an auditorium by a teacher who will not accept any interaction from his students, still common practice in French medical schools.
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↵iii The song is one that students usually sing when a teacher makes an innuendo (voluntary or not) in one of his classes.
