Abstract

The author emphasizes the difficulties in teaching medical interviewing, the basic ingredient in the doctor-patient relationship. Anyone who has taught in this area recognizes the impossibility of any technic or method encompassing this Art. No two situations are identical—two personalities are involved and more or less unduplicated case histories. Since this is an Art it can be taught only in sketches, and in the hope that after some hundreds of interviews as a clinical clerk and house officer a technic will evolve. Some never learn!