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Published Online First: 22 December 2006. doi:10.1136/jnnp.2006.110148
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry 2007;78:454-456
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What do patients think about appearing in neurology "grand rounds"?

Rustam Al-Shahi Salman, Jon Stone, Charles Warlow

Division of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK

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Dr R Al-Shahi Salman
Bramwell Dott Building, Division of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK;Rustam.Al-Shahi@ed.ac.uk

In a study of 43 patients attending postgraduate neurology grand rounds, patients agreed that their history was described accurately (95%), they were relaxed (91%), the audience was not intimidating (84%), and that they had been well informed (70%); but only 62% found the meeting useful and 18% would have liked to have spoken more. Neurologists’ blinded ratings of their patients’ perceptions were concordant in 234 (91%) of 258 paired ratings.

Received 29 October 2006
In final revised form 13 December 2006

Accepted for publication 16 December 2006

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"Grand rounds" evolved early in the history of neurology, and patients are still frequently presented in person at neurology clinical meetings. The most celebrated grand rounds were led by Jean-Martin Charcot (1825–93) at the Salpêtrière in Paris, now immortalised in art by André Brouillet (fig 1Go). In the weekly "Leçons du Mardi", Charcot presented a patient to a large audience including not only hospital staff but also members of the general public. Although never evaluated formally, feelings about Charcot’s grand rounds were mixed:


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  		Figure 1  Une leçon clinique à la Salpêtrière by André Brouillet, 1887 (above, Jean-Martin Charcot demonstrating a case of hysteria).

 

Some considered the Salpêtrière public "exhibitions" of hysterical women patients in a state of partial nudity (and seemingly stripped as well of conventional Victorian inhibitions on comportment and speech) to go beyond the acceptable conventions of clinical demonstrations. In contrast to the silence on this issue on the . . . [Full text of this article]






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