Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heart surgery performed by Dr. DeBakey et al. [April 29] was interesting and exciting. However, I believe that the play-by-play news releases went beyond the limits of medical ethics by violating the physician's obligation to keep his patient's problems and therapy to himself. Such experimental medical procedures, though a necessary part of medical advancement, should not be displayed to the public like a baseball game; the dignity of the patient and his family is too important to permit that...
...practicing doctors, or about five visits for every American. Each visitor expects not only medical care but comfort, sympathy, relief, reassurance and solace. There was a day when he could be sure of getting all these: the day, not too far past, of the family physician who often knew as much about his patient as he did about an illness. Today, Americans get far better medical care than ever before; as for the rest, they are often lucky to get as much as a hurried smile. The result is a troubling paradox: at a time when medical skill has reached...
...fact is that the doctor's role has radically changed. In a famous painting by Sir Luke Fildes-which still hangs in many a doctor's office-a rumpled and exhausted physician keeps home watch over a comatose child while her worried parents hover anxiously in the background. The doctor has obviously been up all night, brooding, worrying, waiting-probably in part because he did not know what else to do. In today's medicine, both the scene and the sentiment are badly out of date. The child would be in an oxygen tent in a hospital...
...HAVE lived 78 years without hearing of bloody places 1 like Cambodia," said Winston Churchill some years before his death. "They have never worried me and I haven't worried them." This remark, recalled by the great man's physician, Lord Moran, was very Churchillian and very 19th century. It was the remark of a man who, despite a keen global vision, still thought it easy for the West to regard itself as the center of the world. To many of his era the periphery of that world lay somewhere in the jungle, well beyond the enclave...
...true professor's impulse to teach, like the true physician's impulse to heal, cannot long be squelched, and every campus embraces men who are living models of what good teaching...