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01-04-2015 | Editorial
A Failure to Communicate
Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine | Issue 4/2015
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In the film Cool Hand Luke, Paul Newman stars as “Luke,” a rebellious prisoner in a southern prison camp. Unable to tolerate the confinement of prison, Luke attempts an escape but is soon captured, returned to the prison and put in chains by the captain who aims to make an example of him in front of the others. Even in this vulnerable position, Luke refuses to give in and talks back to the captain, who, enraged, beats him and utters one of the most oft quoted lines in movie history:…“What we got here is a failure to communicate.”