1. The document discusses how medical education is moving away from having students spend time with patients. Students and doctors now spend less of their time in direct patient care, often behind a computer screen instead. 2. Spending extensive time with patients is important for developing clinical reasoning skills through pattern recognition and experience with different illness presentations. An experienced educator is also needed to help students learn from these experiences. 3. The decreasing focus on patient-centered education and clinical role modeling is detrimental to students' development of clinical thinking and professional skills. More emphasis needs to be placed again on having educators, students, and patients together to discuss medicine.