Voltaire's <it>Candide</it>, medical students, and mentoring

<p>Abstract</p> <p>In Voltaire's work, <it>Candide</it>, a young, naïve man, who has been taught that humans live in the best of all possible worlds, is thrust into the world only to find that this may not be so. He learns over time to balance his optimism with the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Papadimos Thomas J
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2007-07-01
Series:Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine
Online Access:http://www.peh-med.com/content/2/1/13