How Patients Appraise Physicians

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The assignment given me seven years ago at the UCLA School of Medicine was fascinating but imprecise. I was to lecture to students on the "medical humanities," a subject I interpreted as embracing the wide range of matters concerned not just with the nontechnical aspects of patient care but with the general environment of contemporary medicine.The sessions producing the most intense discussions concerned patient—physician relationships. Resource materials for such discussions were far from skimpy and included such teachers and philosophers of medicine as Montaigne, Sir William Osler, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Francis W. Peabody, Lawrence J. Henderson, Walton Hamilton, Hans . . .

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