In Perfectly Reasonable, Trace is applying to medical school. With a little help from Margo, he plans to ace the dreaded medical school interview. Now he just has to convince Margo to help him!
I had the inspiration to write this story from my experience teaching clinical skills to medical students. As part of that job, I wrote a lot of scenarios for standardized patients, who are actors portraying a role. The actors could simulate an angry patient, one in medical distress or mental crisis, one facing a moral dilemma, or any of those combined! Standardized patients are used in scenarios to teach medical students how to handle the situations before they face them in real life. They are also used to test students and as a tool to assess applicants in medical school interviews. I thought I would give the reader a glimpse into the breadth and…
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Linda O'Connor, Author 