Who are we training – doctors or border security?
Macbeth: Act 5; Scene 1. Doctor: “What is she doing? Look at how she rubs her hands.”
I scrutinised the performances. Each of the actors interpreted the role, individualising it. Each of them expressed intense anxiety and fear.
The hand-wringing was truly heroic.
Unfortunately, I wasn’t watching a casting for the role of Lady Macbeth, Shakespeare’s most famously tortured character. I was examining medical students in an Observed Structured Clinical Examination or OSCE — a standard assessment tool in today’s medical schools.
