Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...modern physician . . . is annoyed if a patient asks about a recent medical advance reported in LIFE or TIME which he has not heard about, since he did not read LIFE or TIME first! He has little time to read, less time to reflect and almost no time to re-evaluate goals...
...complexity of medicine has had profound effects upon the practice of medicine. First, it has encouraged specialization by the physician, and according to the Coggeshall report the choice of over 88 per cent of new physicians is to enter specialized practice. The reason is obvious. It is far easier to encompass a special field of medicine than the totality of medical knowledge, and there is the opportunity to make an effort to keep up with advances in the field...
From the dawn of civilization those practicing the healing arts have met with frustrations, and the modern physician is no exception; it is only that the quality of his frustration has changed. The physician finds himself much in demand and he is torn between the exhaustion of overwork and the guilt of not fulfilling what he believes are all his obligations. He often works at a pace incompatible with home life, a life in the community apart from medicine or in fact any opportunity to enjoy the fruits of his labor. His anxieties which arise from this state of affairs...
There are a variety of other frustrations but only one more I should like to mention. The modern physician is losing some of his identification with the community, not because of specialization or lack of interest, but because he is swept up in the inexorable force of urbanization which brings with it the kind of impersonal relationship brought into hideous focus by the refusal of certain New Yorkers to go to the aid of their fellow citizens being attacked by outlaws of the city. The physician too, if he is a product of the city, develops a certain indifference...
...modern physician. . . is annoyed if a patient asks about a recent medical advance reported in LIFE or TIME which he has not heard about, since he did not read LIFE or TIME first! He has little time to read, less time to reflect and almost no time to re-evaluate goals. complained that lectures were not well enough organized and failed to select out major facts and major concepts. Superficially it appears that Harvard students are simultaneously asking for more independence and more "spoon feeding." Yet these two requests are perhaps not as contradictory as they first appear, and both...