Social service and the art of healing.

  • Cabot, Richard C. (Richard Clarke), 1868-1939.
Date:
1912
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Credit: Social service and the art of healing. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    physical ills by themselves without knowl- edge of the habits that so often help to make him sick and the character of which these habits are the fruit. Yet physicians and hospital managers have only just begun to realize this because the inquiry into the ultimate causes and results of disease has not yet gathered much momentum. The question : Why does this disease occur at all? is still thought of as one which a few paid officials or virtuous amateurs may well be- stir themselves to answer, provided they have the time and provided they do it with- out disturbing the practical work of the busy physician. The average practitioner is used to seeing his patients flash by him like shooting stars—out of darkness into darkness. He has been trained to focus upon a single suspected organ till he thinks of his patients almost hke disembodied diseases. What is there in the waiting-room?