What we have now is doctors who are actually better technically at what they're doing in their specialty than 30 or 40 years ago, but we lost the relationship, when the doctor would look people in the eye and say, 'I care about you. We can do this together.'
Interpretation
Modern doctors possess better technical skills but often lack the personal touch in patient relationships.
This quote emphasizes the shift in the medical profession over the past few decades. While doctors today may have advanced technical knowledge and skills that surpass those of their predecessors, the essence of patient care has changed, leading to a loss of the genuine human connection that fosters trust and collaboration. The quote highlights the importance of empathy and communication in medicine, suggesting that true healing involves a partnership between doctor and patient.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of patient-centered healthcare, you could reference this quote.
As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient survives, you pray, because it's only by the grace of God that you get there.
As we get better at understanding how little we know about the body, we begin to realize that the next big frontier in medicine, is energy medicine. It's not the mechanistic part of the joints moving. It's not the chemistry of our body. It's understanding for the first time how energy influences how we feel.
A prevention-based society is one in which every institution, whether they're a hospital or a clinic, or a school, an employer or a faith-based organization, recognizes and embraces the role that it can play in improving health.
It's hard to raise awareness of pancreatic cancer - people who get it don't live long enough.
We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms.
Seventy per cent of all patients who come to physicians could cure themselves if they got rid of their fears and worries.
If a product has an endless list of ingredients, and you can't pronounce half of them, I would think twice about bringing them into your home.
If the U.S. can transform its domestic market for HIV/AIDS drugs, it will certainly transform the world market and make HIV/AIDS drugs more affordable for everyone, everywhere.
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