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Lesson 28

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Lesson 28 Patients and doctors

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This is a skept

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This is a skeptical age, but although our faith in many of the things in which our forefathers fervently believed has weakened, our confidence in the curative properties of the bottle of medicine remains the same a theirs.

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This modern fai

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This modern faith in medicines is proved the fact that the annual drug bill of the Health Services is mounting to astronomical figures and shows no signs at present of ceasing to rise.

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The majority of

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The majority of the patients attending the medical out-patients departments of our hospitals feel that they have not received adequate treatment

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unless they are

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unless they are able to carry home with them some tangible remedy in the shape of a bottle of medicine, a box of pills, or a small jar of ointment,

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and the doctor

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and the doctor in charge of the department is only too ready to provide them with these requirements.

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There is no qui

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There is no quicker method of disposing of patients then by giving them what they are asking for,

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and since most

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and since most medical men in the Health Services are overworked and have little time for offering time-consuming and little-appreciated advice on such subjects as diet, right living, and the need for abandoning bad habits etc.,

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the bottle, the

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the bottle, the box, and the jar are almost always granted them.

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Nor is it only

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Nor is it only the ignorant and ill-educated person who was such faith in the bottle of medicine.

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It is recounted

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It is recounted of Thomas Carlyle that when him in his pocket what remained of a bottle of medicine formerly prescribed for an indisposition of Mrs. Carlyle’s.

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Carlyle was ent

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Carlyle was entirely ignorant of what the bottle in his pocket contained, of the nature of the illness from which his friend was suffering, and of what had previously been wrong with his wife,

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but a medicine

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but a medicine that had worked so well in one form of illness would surely be of equal benefit in another, and comforted by the thought of the help he was bringing to his friend, he hastened to Henry Taylor’s house.

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History does no

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History does not relate whether his friend accepted his medical help, but in all probability he did.

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The great advan

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The great advantage of taking medicine is that it makes no demands on the taker beyond that of putting up for a moment with a disgusting taste,

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and that is wha

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and that is what all patients demand of their doctors – to be cured at no inconvenience to themselves.