The practice of medicine or surgery is not just sore throats, colds
and the flu, removing gall bladders, or back aches and belly aches.
It is, however, a roller-coaster cornucopia of people and events
where drama, comedy, the heights of joy and the depths of sadness
are only moments away, as if a revolving door is constantly
ejecting the next encounter - a child with appendicitis, a broken
arm, the Ku Klux Klan with death threats, gunshot wounds, snake
handlers, con artists, sex, racism, rape, a sweet old lady with
arthritis, or some addict - a never-ending myriad. Thankfully, most
of my patients and I grew old together in an air of love and mutual
respect, in an era of closeness between patients and doctors, when
doctors really cared - not only about the patient''s health, but
also about the patients themselves. Medical school forgot to
mention ethics, or talk about humanistic qualities, abstract values
outside the world of science. The patient is not just a patient
case, (that "gallbladder" in room 911), or a number, but is a
unique human being, with emotions, feelings, worthiness, fears,
hopes and worries, as well as the capabilities of understanding and
courage in the face of disaster. He or she deserves full respect.
"Ten Years of Rape," "Green Door of Racism," "Save A Sexist and
Lose A Patient," and "The Comedy Corner" are true stories about the
people who traverse these pages, a few of the curious encounters in
my forty-year love affair with helping people - sometimes called
the practice of medicine.
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