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He helped develop the weekly XM Satellite Radio broadcast to highlight more personal aspects of medicine as a response to the heightened pressures doctors face today. Each week, Samuels chats with a guest picked because they “have done something inspiring in medicine,” such as...
Because he and Samuels were trained on far more primitive medical technology, Ropper says they benefited from a culture that placed a high premium on the judgment of the doctor.
Samuels says he worries that this move towards “evidence-based medicine,” in which physicians adhere to pre-made treatment guidelines, will turn doctors into a sort of “functionary, who just sits by the computer and fills in the blanks?...
“The doctor is often not even looking you in the eye, but he’s turned sideways and typing into a computer while you are trying to tell him something very personal, frightening, and important to you,” Samuels says.
When Epstein visited Samuels years ago, he would spend time talking to Samuels and reassure him with a pat on the back that “everything was going to be alright”—a bedside manner that Samuels says he still uses with his patients today...