Re: Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians. --> RE: Team Care for 21st Century Family Medicine

[Guest guest]

I

guess this Bohn guy got the same fortune cookie I did.

I

like to think that the broader sense of nature refers to botanical medicines as

well.

Straz

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Team Care for 21st Century Family Medicine

I was taught in medical school by a wise old country doc, that if I just

listened well enough, the patients would tell me what is wrong with

them.

***Me too I thought it was a osler quote I mix two of them together

one is

iF you want to know what is wrong with the patient, ask her.

and the other is something like the job of the physcian is to amuse the

patient while nature does the healing (mangled)

[Guest guest]

Somewhat along the same lines, a Neurology prof quoted during the

first week of med school a writer named Wilifred Trotter:

" disease tells its secrets in casual parentheses " .

Over 28+ years in practice I have found that to be true many times.

My concern over the current " usual and customary " (sick) medical

practice climate is that there is no time for the doc to listen for

the parenthetical statements which are so revealing, or patients

don't bother expressing them in the presence of a harried doc.

Dave Pomeroy MD

Brain Health NW - practice limited to AD/HD and related conditions

drdave@... (office) or above address

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> I was taught in medical school by a wise old country doc, that if I

just

> listened well enough, the patients would tell me what is wrong with

> them.

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> ***Me too I thought it was a osler quote I mix two of them

> together

> one is

> iF you want to know what is wrong with the patient, ask her.

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> and the other is something like the job of the physcian is to amuse

the

> patient while nature does the healing (mangled)

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