We physicians in America have fallen too much in love with the technical aspects of our calling. We busy ourselves with calculating doses, viewing CT scans, looking at panels of blood tests. All very necessary, many times, but sometimes it is better to sit down and visit the sick. More so the dying. We have no time for that. We don’t know what to say. We are more comfortable just to be occupied with irrelevant measures. We are enraptured with the tree of knowledge. We confuse it with the tree of life.
Excerpt from
"A Commentary on American Medical Practice"
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