Medicine and Law
As a medical student, I was taught to engage with patients, listen to what they had to say and take a good history. The practice of medicine was a little different. Patients were often reduced to a label (the burst colostomy bag up in gastro), a set of results (the woman with crap LFTs), acronyms (the man with SS and MODS in ICU), or organs (the Spleen in room 10). Short hand descriptions of cases promoted efficiency, and helped with the necessary professional detachment.
