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[00:00.31]Lesson 28
[00:02.34]Patients and doctors
[00:09.46]What are patients looking for when they visit the doctor?
[00:14.79]This is a sceptical age,
[00:16.94]but although our faith in many of the things in which our forefathers fervently believed has weakened,
[00:23.70]our confidence in the curative properties of the bottle of medicine remains the same as theirs.
[00:30.52]This modern faith in medicines is proved by the fact
[00:34.23]that the annual drug bill of the Health Services is mounting to astronomical figures.
[00:40.51]and shows no signs at present of ceasing to rise.
[00:45.25]The majority of the patients attending the medical out-patients departments of our hospitals feel that
[00:51.22]they have not received adequate treatment unless they are able to carry home with them
[00:56.22]some tangible remedy in the shape of a bottle of medicine,
[01:00.29]a box of pills, or a small jar of ointment,
[01:04.21]and the doctor in charge of the department is only too ready to provide them with these requirements.
[01:10.98]There is no quicker method of disposing of patients than by giving them what they are asking for,
[01:17.30]and since most medical men in the Health Services are overworked
[01:21.58]and have little time for offering time-consuming and little-appreciated advice on such subjects as diet,