@article {Shooner535, author = {C. Shooner}, title = {The ethics of learning from patients}, volume = {156}, number = {4}, pages = {535--538}, year = {1997}, publisher = {CMAJ}, abstract = {Is it ethical for medicine to use patients as learning tools for medical students if these patients have not been given a chance to provide truly informed consent? Dr. Caroline Shooner raises this question in the following article, which claimed second prize in CMAJ{\textquoteright}s 1996 Logie Medical Ethics Essay Contest. She considers the case of a patient whose trust was shaken when a medical student performed a chest-tube insertion. Shooner concludes that psychologic harm could have been avoided had the patient{\textquoteright}s right to informed consent been respected. She also argues that few patients will turn down a chance to help students learn if the request is made properly and openly.}, issn = {0820-3946}, URL = {https://www.cmaj.ca/content/156/4/535}, eprint = {https://www.cmaj.ca/content/156/4/535.full.pdf}, journal = {CMAJ} }