George,
I'll be quoting you at work.
>When I see the headlong rush back into scientific reductionism, with IT,
>EBM, goon squads (sorry, CHIMP) etc I fear for the profession and that
>it may lose the very humanity which is its cornerstone, and also its
>vulnerability.
>To paraphrase someone else, the science and the humanity of medicine are
>not an either/or situation, whether applied to the patients or
>ourselves, but should work together and produce a sum greater than its
>parts.
Regards
Jeff Green
Community Locum and Consultant Goon.
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