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FEW more intimate relationships exist, outside the family or the church, than that of the average person with his doctor. Each year, nearly one billion visits are made to the U.S.'s 225,000 practicing doctors, or about five visits for every American. Each visitor expects not only medical...
The deprivation is only partly the doctor's fault. For the very reason that medical knowledge is expanding in quantum leaps, a modern doctor must spend much more time simply keeping abreast of his profession, thus has less time for individual patients. Moreover, his new skills can best be...
Although the American doctor ranks high in prestige (just below a U.S. Supreme Court Justice) and pay (average: $28,380), he has lately been dislodged from his old status as the grand panjandrum. In the bestselling Intern, the mysterious Dr. X-who well knew the necessity of shielding himself from...
Though everyone has his horror story about medical negligence or slipups, there seems to be a tone of special aggrievement in the current crop. There was the woman in Illinois who complained that she did not feel well, was advised by telephone to take aspirin, and was dead within the...
The medical profession is busy with dozens of plans to bring the family doctor back to prominence. One device designed to save doctors time and make more expertise accessible is group practice; the number of groups has risen from roughly 100 in 1959 to more than 5,500 today. Group...