How to Fix the Premedical Curriculum-Another Try.

This Arts and Medicine feature reviews the case made by physician-essayist Lewis Thomas that all prospective medical students be required to know classical Greek language and literature before medical school acceptance and broadens the argument, calling on medical school admissions committees to require an undergraduate major in humanities as a basis for medical education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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