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Doctors and Dr. Seuss

Restoring the Patient’s Voice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 December 2014

NATHAN CARLIN
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Abstract:

In 2012, Dartmouth College renamed its medical school, founded in 1797, the Audrey and Theodor Geisel School of Medicine. Using the renaming of the medical school of Dartmouth College as a foil, I offer in this article a vision of what it might mean to align Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, with doctors by examining Geisel’s You’re Only Old Once! A Book for Obsolete Children. In this article, I derive four critiques of modern medicine from the book and offer four strategies as to how these critiques could be explored in medical education. If You’re Only Old Once! is read as a pathography, I argue that it can be used as a resource for medical education.

Keywords

Dr. Seussmedical educationpathographybioethics educationYou’re Only Old Once!
Type
Bioethics Education
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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , January 2015 , pp. 113 - 119
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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