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Procedure:

1 Divide your class in

half; half
are doctors, half are p
atients.
2 Put the patients in
an area of the
class which becomes
the waiting
room. The patients sh
ould either
come up with their ow
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or you can give them
a few ideas
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up in the
morning feeling sick,
the one who
cant sleep, the one w
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on a lot of weight or th
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losing weight. The pa
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very patient
should visit every doc
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advice from that docto
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each
consultation with the
doctors.
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each doctor, they ma
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make notes of the ad
vice given,
they return to the wa
iting area
and decide who was
the best
doctor, and perhaps
who was
the craziest!
4 Meanwhile, the doc
tors all get
together, because the
y are at
a medical conference
, and they
have to compare the
advice
theyve given and p
erhaps
decide who was the
craziest patient!

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