Volume 27, Number 8 · May 15, 1980
In Defense of Doctors
By P.B. Medawar
The Role of Medicine
by Thomas McKeown
Princeton University Press, 207 pp., $5.95 (paper)
The angle of vision from a Chair of Social Medicine such as Thomas McKeown occupied with distinction for many years in the University of Birmingham, England, is quite different from that of a physician at the bedside or a surgeon at the operating table. The difference is embodied in the following credo:
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