“The ordinary patient goes to his doctor because he is in pain or some other discomfort and wants to be comfortable again; he is not in pursuit of the ideal of health in any direct sense. The doctor on the other hand wants to discover the pathological condition and control it if he can. The two are thus to some degree at cross purposes from the first, and unless the affair is brought to an early and happy conclusion this diversion of aims is likely to become more and more serious as the case goes on.” IfsWantFirstsTwoHandsPainSciencePurposeCasesConditionsSeriousHealthGoes OnDegreesComfortableOrdinaryIdealsCrossesDirectDoctorsAimPatientAffairPursuitConclusionDiscomfortDiversion Author:Wilfred Trotter
“It is necessary to guard ourselves from thinking that the practice of the scientific method enlarges the powers of the human mind. Nothing is more flatly contradicted by experience than the belief that a man distinguished in one or even more departments of science, is more likely to think sensibly about ordinary affairs than anyone else.” ThinkingMenMindHumansBeliefPracticeOrdinaryMethodAffairDepartmentHuman MindDistinguishedScientific Method Author:Wilfred Trotter
