Dehumanizing Diagnosis
It's also one of the aspects of medicine that can seem most dehumanizing.
It's how the elegant retired schoolteacher who mesmerized three generations
Of her students with stories Of the Roman Empire as she inspired them (0
master noun declensions in Latin is quickly reduced, in diagnosis-speak,
to the seventy-three-year-old woman with rapidly progressive dementia in
room 703.
It's also one of the aspects of medicine that can seem most dehumanizing.
It's how the elegant retired schoolteacher who mesmerized three generations
Of her students with stories Of the Roman Empire as she inspired them (0
master noun declensions in Latin is quickly reduced, in diagnosis-speak,
to the seventy-three-year-old woman with rapidly progressive dementia in
room 703.
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