Do doctors treat diseases or patients? It's a crucial question, according to Dr. Eric Cassell. In this important new book, Cassell argues that modern medicine is pointed in the wrong direction by focusing on treating the ailment, rather than addressing the suffering it causes the patient. The result, he writes, is often more suffering for the victim, through discomfort, pain, anxiety, disruptions in the patient's life. He makes an eloquent case for seeing the symptoms within the context of the patient's whole life and ...
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Do doctors treat diseases or patients? It's a crucial question, according to Dr. Eric Cassell. In this important new book, Cassell argues that modern medicine is pointed in the wrong direction by focusing on treating the ailment, rather than addressing the suffering it causes the patient. The result, he writes, is often more suffering for the victim, through discomfort, pain, anxiety, disruptions in the patient's life. He makes an eloquent case for seeing the symptoms within the context of the patient's whole life and person, injecting a critical element of humanism into what has long been a very technical discipline.
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