Ivory-Tower Humanist

Abstract

"Medicine is today in part an applied science. Mathematics, physics, chemistry, and many departments of biology find applications... in the practice of all skillful physicians... A multitude of important new facts and theories, of new methods and routines, so far absorb the physician's attention and arouse his interest that the personal relations seem to have become less important, if not absolutely, at least relatively to the new and powerful technology of medical practice."Such were some of the words with which a writer began a Journal article not, as one might suppose, in 1973, but in 1935. The art of . . .