Is Google Killing the Medical Riddle?
Medical students learn not only by textbook and labs, but also by being challenged by medical riddle offered up by their professors and lecturers.
Once, medical students would have to “formulate hypotheses, go to the book, research and eliminate possibilities . . . and come to the answer” making the medical riddle a valuable learning tool.
But these days, with google, this process is almost defunct. Students can simple keyword the riddle into google search and come up with the answer in a matter of seconds.
Stanford’s Abraham Verghese now adds to a caveat to all his medical riddles – Don’t google it.
Here’s his latest…
A man walks into a bar, offers to keep his head completely submerged in a bucket of water for twenty minutes and if he doesnt he will buy drinks all around and if he does the patrons must stand him a round of drinks. He does and so they do. The question is how did he do it?
There’s no way I’d be able to figure it out without google but then again, I’m not a medical student.
You can find the answer, by the way, in the comments.
(originally discussed in Kevin MD)
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