Unimportance of a single sign in assessing illness severity, and the need to look at the whole childĪnd not just the thermometer reading. This provided sufficient motivation to start teaching the family about the relative This lack of available information often interfered with the process of diagnosis due to incomplete,Īnd often highly relevant, past medical history.Īnother memory of my early years in practice was the number of times I was called out of bedīecause a child had a fever, only to be met on arrival at the home by a mildly ill child playing withĪ box of toys. Who were quite ignorant of these procedures or what organs they no longer possessed. Number of patients who had had major surgical procedures (as judged by their obvious scars) and Later I began medical practice as a solo general practitioner, I remember being surprised by the May have been by those students who were wiser and more broadly educated than myself. From memory I am not aware that this omission was even noticed, although it Printed in China on 80 gsm woodfree by China Translation and Printing Services Ltdĭuring my student days in the late 1940s the idea of educating patients about their illnesses was Typeset in JoannaMT 10/11 by diacriTech, India Illustrator: Aptara Inc., New Delhi, India/ diacriTech, India
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