Lark-and-Elephant Pie Meets Humble Pie
Drummond Rennie · Annals of Internal Medicine · 1993
Letters15 February 1993Lark-and-Elephant Pie Meets Humble PieDrummond Rennie, MDDrummond Rennie, MDSearch for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-118-4-199302150-00033 SectionsAboutFull TextPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail TO THE EDITOR:While reading and greatly admiring your wise editorial [1] on the importance of the physical diagnosis, I came across your citation, both in the text and the references (number 7), to an equally admirable and wise editorial written by Sackett. The latter introduces an exciting series in JAMA by which the art and science of history-taking and physical examination are being analyzed, criticized, quantified, and perhaps revolutionized.Something stirred in my memory, and I pulled the reference to confirm that this was indeed the masterly description and inspired prescription that had so struck me when it first ...References1. Fletcher RH, Fletcher SW. Has medicine outgrown physical diagnosis? Ann Intern Med. 1992; 117:786-7. Google Scholar2. Sackett DL, Rennie D. The science of the art of the clinical examination. JAMA. 1992; 267:2650-2. Google Scholar Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAuthors: Drummond Rennie, MD PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics 15 February 1993Volume 118, Issue 4 Page: 320 Keywords Memory ePublished: 15 August 2000 Issue Published: 15 February 1993 Copyright & PermissionsCopyright © 1993 by American College of Physicians. All Rights Reserved.PDF downloadLoading ...