RT Journal
A1 Bean WB
T1 IDeals in medicine (a christian approach to medical practice).
JF A.M.A. Archives of Internal Medicine
JO A.M.A. Archives of Internal Medicine
YR 1959
FD August 1
VO 104
IS 2
SP 345
OP 346
DO 10.1001/archinte.1959.00270080171032
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1959.00270080171032
AB Most physicians are notably reluctant to deal with matters having any taint of philosophy, morals, manners, or ethics. Such are considered to be beneath their dignity or outside what they believe is their proper scope of activity. Younger members of the profession may feel this lack particularly. They have a hard time finding where to turn for a discussion of beliefs upon which they should form opinions in order that their practice may be more than a mechanical routine of reflex responses. Naturally, it is impossible for any book to answer all the questions that might come up in any person's search for a philosophy of life and medical practice. A British physician and a British surgeon with several colleagues have faced such problems in "Ideals in Medicine."With the world divided into two hostile camps, it is well for physicians as well as scientists in the Western world to