Medical students fail basic anatomy

Medical students fail basic anatomy :

"When asked by a cardiac surgeon during a live operation to identify a part of the heart that he was pointing to, one group of final-year students thought it was the patient's liver."

A rose by any other name? I suppose it might be okay if he knew how to repair what he thought was the liver. Bit weird. I don't understand how doctors can avoid having a knowledge of the human anatomy. That is one of the things which makes them a doctor. Why do we insist on vague at the moment? What is wrong with fundamental knowledge? All the new approaches can be added to a sound basic framework. I few have a skills shortage or lack it IS because people don't know things. Why don't they? Why don't they see that as important? We do know a lot of things in any one area these days but fundamental knowledge still has to be common to any job, role, position in life. Why would we avoid it? At least we are admotting we need to make some changes and at least we actually know what are gaps are. No shame in that. Let's get on to it then and the younger ones will feel more competent and less intimidated. It reminds me of the girl at the chemist I shall not be going to any more. They didn't have the antihistamines I normally get every summer. I asked which ones they did have.

"Does it matter? They are just antihistamines."
"Some antihistamines are different from others. I should prefer to have one I am familiar with."
"Doesn't matter which one. Antihistamines are antihistamines. They all work."
By this time I had remembered the name of another one I was happy to purchase instead of the ones I normally get. I asked her for a packet of those.
"Are there different doses?"
"No, they're antihistamines. You just take them."

At least the young doctors in this article are aware they have gaps and are willing to put some good knowledge into themselves.