Now I'm teaching doctors, lawyers and corporate businessmen".
But hospitals are also charged with teaching doctors, and every doctor has a first mistake.
The chore of teaching doctors how to practice medicine has been handed to the pharmaceutical industry.
He said he was teaching doctors in training how to do it.
He was a strong advocate of teaching doctors to use research and technological advances to improve care for patients.
But a number of AIDS experts from the United States and elsewhere have been teaching doctors in Africa in the proper use of such drugs.
I travelled in Syria in September 2014 teaching doctors and medics how to treat chlorine casualties and also how to avoid becoming victims themselves.
In a rare moment of disillusion, he told me that the difference between teaching adults and students in the 1950s was like "teaching doctors' daughters rather than doctors' sons".
More work and resources must be devoted to creating accurate assessment tools, testing the reliability of those that exist and teaching doctors once again the art and science of determining, and talking about, prognoses.
A vital first step is teaching doctors how to ask the right questions, said Elaine Fink, a senior lawyer with the Legal Aid Society who founded the partnership with Dr. Kahn of Children's Hospital.
