Letter to the Editor

I was disappointed to see, on page 1 of Medicine at Michigan [winter 2019], a physician examining a patient through clothing. It is my feeling that this gives passive endorsement to a practice that is fraught with error.

Mikio H. Hiraga (M.D. 1959, Residency 1974), anesthesiologist

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