Doctors on Doctoring Physicians reflect on a culture that draws from a rich past, pushes toward a promise-filled future, and confronts the sorrows and triumphs of the present.
Health Care Financing The United States spends more money on health care than other industrialized nations, yet as many as 50 million Americans are
still uninsured.
Medical Ethics Doctors confront a range of thorny issues in their practices,
from the birth of extremely premature infants to pleas for
physician-assisted suicide.
The Doctor–Patient Relationship Francis Peabody, Class of 1907, famously told Harvard Medical
School students, “The essential quality of the clinician is an interest
in humanity, for the secret of the care of the patient is in caring
for the patient.”
