Scripted conferences and simulations have complemented, and in many instances have gradually taken the place of, clinical exposures and mentored real-time experience with medical procedures.
At his ebullient, if scripted, press conference, he stressed that actions speak more than style.
The deputy environmental protection minister, Wu Xiaoqing, refused to answer a question about soil pollution at a tightly scripted press conference on Friday.
The closest thing Hoffman has to an extended-family vacation is The Weekend to Be Named Later, a highly scripted annual conference held between Christmas and New Year's at a Southern California resort.
Eight players from a 156-man field were urine-tested at last year's Open, with even that statistic unbeknown to the R&A's chief executive, Martin Slumbers, when he appeared for a painfully scripted media conference on Wednesday.
Ms. White held few, and tightly scripted, news conferences and granted no substantive interviews.
And through it all, she has said little publicly, staging few, highly scripted news conferences, granting no substantive interviews and closely guarding the details of investigations.
Negotiations descend quickly into anger or prolonged silences, like a Potsdam conference scripted by Pinter.
If Major League Baseball officials could have scripted today's news conference to announce the starting pitchers and the lineups for Tuesday night's All-Star Game at Miller Park, they would have made sure that every question focused on the beauty of baseball.
In contrast to Xi's speech, premier Li Keqiang focused on reassuring investors and businesses during his annual highly scripted press conference where questions are pre-screened.
