Kindness, prescribed and natural, in medicine.
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Kindness, prescribed and natural, in medicine.
To omit the word kindness in medical practice and journals, in favour of fashionable notions such as "care" and "skills", is not in patients' interests. Health professionals may come to the view that natural kindness (the same as that found in the world outside medicine), because it is absent by name in medical skills courses' or other official edicts, is somehow unscientific and unworthy of th...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Medical Ethics
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0306-6800
DOI: 10.1136/jme.23.2.116