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Why Hospitals Hire People To Fake Being Sick

How can employing professional actors to act as sick patients in hospitals impact the way medicine is taught?

Published on 1/12/2017 at 12:00 PM

At facilities around the country, medical schools employ standardized patients, who are often professional actors, to give students an education in the real world.

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