Comments on: Neil Chanchlani: Why composite patients just won’t do http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2011/12/30/neil-chanchlani-why-composite-patients-just-won%e2%80%99t-do/ Just another blogs.bmj.com weblog Sun, 10 Feb 2013 15:13:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Guest http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2011/12/30/neil-chanchlani-why-composite-patients-just-won%e2%80%99t-do/#comment-14764 Guest Mon, 23 Jan 2012 02:18:44 +0000 http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/?p=13710#comment-14764 Composite patients are extremely useful. Narrative is a very powerful tool in informing and educating. 'Most patients are happy to give consent' – not practical – (oh, I write things occasionally, your case is really unusual, I might write about you one day). 'So long as their identity is relatively preserved' – well isn't that what writing composite patients is all about?  I think Drs Pemberton and Cannon provide an extremely useful perspective to lay people through their columns and should be congratulated not patronised.

And the reason that you've never seen the cases mentioned above may be because you haven't had much clinical experience?

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