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Does the World Need Doctors With Engineering Degrees?

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Now I’m going to percuss,” Frederick Wang says just before delivering a sharp tap to Mason Danna’s back. “Can you exhale and hold that exhale for me?”With Wang clad in a white lab coat and Danna perched on an examination table in a hospital gown, the pair look like a doctor conducting a routine physical  and  his patient. Except that Wang nervously smirks and chuckles as he asks Danna to move various body parts about. And a third party, Ken Lavergne, is observing each step and scribbling notes. Wang and Danna are, in fact, Texas A&M University medical students learning to conduct a head-to-toe examination of a patient. Lavergne, a teaching associate, is here, in this small room in Houston Methodist Hospital, to suggest improvements…

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