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What does it mean?
Studying disease needs both textbooks and real patients to be complete.
In plain terms
You need books and patients to learn medicine properly.
What can you take from it?
Combine theory and practice in learning.

Where it applies

  • medical school
  • training
  • research

Putting it to work

  • study patients
  • read books
  • balance theory and practice

Questions to consider

  • What is the value of hands-on learning?
  • How do books and practice compare?

Another view

Some diseases are studied without direct patients via data.

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