Alas, these new med school grads do not know how to take care of patients

Read this quote.

“The most common criticism made at present by older practitioners is that young graduates have been taught a great deal about the mechanism of disease, but very little about the practice of medicine – or to put it more bluntly, they are too ‘scientific’ and do not know how to take care of patients.”
 -Francis W. Peabody

Now guess what year it was written. Take a look at the article "The Care of the Patient" (Journal of the American Medical Association) [PDF] to learn the answer.

More about the article and Dr. Peabody.

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