| August 10, 2001 |
Contact: Roban
Johnson |
WHO: Fifty-eight first-year students entering Mercer University School of Medicine.
WHAT: Will participate in the School of Medicine's White Coat Ceremony, where they will be "cloaked" in their first white coats and will hear a message on humanism in medicine from Robert B. Copeland, M.D., president of Southern CardioPulmonary Associates, LaGrange.
WHEN: 3 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 12, 2001
WHERE: Willingham Auditorium, Coleman Avenue, Macon, Georgia
WHY: Although compassion has always played a significant role in patient care, it has traditionally not been a formal part of medical school curriculum. Through the White Coat Ceremony, Mercer School of Medicine helps to clarify for the incoming students the true meaning of humanism in medicine -- that as physicians they should strive to not only cure their patients but to care for them as well. In addition to the white coats the students will receive during the ceremony, each will be given pins inscribed with the words "humanism in medicine" from the Arnold P. Gold Foundation and copies of the book On Doctoring provided by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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