However, I was often dismayed during Rounds that I could not recommend a good practical manual to student physicians to bridge the fundamental gap between the second and third year of medical school. I think not.
Students are in serious trouble most of the time, of which they have little.
Pressure to acquire basic knowledge and skills to practice medicine and pass the National Board examinations is great. To paraphrase Richard C. Wydick, Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis, we doctors do not write plain English. We use eight words to say what could be said in two. We use arcane phrases to express commonplace ideas. Seeking to be precise, we become redundant.