Health: A Matter of Statistics or Feeling?

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Lawrence Henderson, world-famous biochemist, also admonished physicians to become more aware of the sociologic adversities of their patients,1 tasted wines while he elaborated on the virtues of a certain side of a certain hill of a certain vineyard, and framed quotable bon mots. A Henderson aphorism frequently cited was attributed to him by Dr. Herrman Blumgart: "Somewhere between 1910 and 1912 in this country,... a random patient, with a random disease, consulting a doctor chosen at random had, for the first time in the history of mankind, a better than fifty-fifty chance of profiting from the encounter."2 Henderson's words imply . . .

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