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Hippocrates understood bedside manner

Posted on September 24, 2008

What would Hippocrates Do?Hippocrates was a holistic practitioner intent on treating the complete person, whereas today we tend to specialize in exquisitely narrow fields of anatomic and physiologic knowledge, leaving the balance of the human body to our colleagues. Hippocrates was a devoted and objective empiricist, while most modern doctors spend so little time with each patient that it s absurd to claim serious observational skills. Hippocrates was a consummate communicator, while today s doctors (ask our patients) are walking communication nightmares. Hippocrates felt and demonstra...

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