Whatever Happened to the General Practitioners?Nova Publishers, 1997 - 160 pages Reflecting on his 35-year career as a doctor in the US, Cantafio laments the trends that have led so many trained practitioners away from direct patient care, and have subjected all doctors to the scorn of patients who rightly see them pursuing personal gain rather than reducing suffering. He reviews the history of medicine and physicians in the co |
Contents
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Chapter V | 29 |
Chapter VI | 39 |
Chapter VII | 53 |
Chapter VIII | 65 |
Chapter X | 85 |
Chapter XI | 101 |
Chapter XII | 121 |
Chapter XIII | 131 |
Chapter XIV | 147 |
Addendum | 155 |
About the Author | 159 |
Chapter IX | 77 |
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Page viii - Into whatever houses I enter I will go into them for the benefit of the sick, and will abstain from every voluntary act of mischief and corruption, and further, from the seduction of females or males, of freemen and slaves.
Page viii - Whatever, in connection with my professional practice or not in connection with it, I see or hear, in the life of men, which ought not to be spoken of abroad, I will not divulge, as reckoning that all such should be kept secret.
Page 154 - Do our physicians today conduct themselves at all times in a manner that will not bring discredit to the medical profession?
Page 7 - Drug stores were open seven days a week, from seven in the morning until twelve o'clock at night, and during epidemics closed even later.
Page 63 - Since affluence has been the predominating economic condition, beginning with the end of the great depression and the Second World War, it has imparted its influence on the medical as well as the other professions.