God and the Doctor

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THE public image of the doctor is an amalgam of what patients think about doctors and their art, craft, or science; of what doctors, who, as Sydenham1 observed over 300 years ago, are also patients, think about themselves and their calling; and finally, of the perceived relations between doctors and patients and what both parties believe they should be.Patients have always grumbled about doctors. Plato,2 for instance, had two criticisms of medicine. The first was that doctors treated slaves as carefully as they treated free men or philosophers, which did not accord with the rules of his authoritarian Republic, . . .

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