A medical student has revealed how, through a lesson on diagnosing cancer growths, she came to discover that she had thyroid cancer.
Gabriella Barboza, a third-year medical student at a school in Sãn Paulo, Brazil, recalled how her professor, Daniel Lichtenthaler, called her up in class to show how a neck examination should be performed, during a recent interview with BBC Brasil. According to the 22-year-old, the rest of her classmates had already been called upon, so she was being used as a model to explain “the technique for palpating the thyroid”.
