Posts Tagged 'patient and doctors'

Flanders Dunbar (in Emotions and Bodily Changes) wrote: “It does not matter whether the mind or the body is the primary seat of the disorder: in either case it is the patient who must be treated first, then the disease itself, and only then the symptoms.” The fact is, modern medicine is so preoccupied with physical treatments and the use of scientific gadgets, drugs, etc., that very often, the treatment of the person is overlooked or neglected. In some worse instances, the ...