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[00:01.50]Lesson 28

[00:03.32]Patients and doctors

[00:12.11]What are patients looking for when they visit the doctor?

[00:18.10]This is a sceptical age,

[00:20.52]but although our faith in many of the things

[00:22.84]in which our forefathers fervently believed has weakened,

[00:27.10]our confidence in the curative properties of the bottle of medicine remains the same as theirs.

[00:33.83]This modern faith in medicines is proved by the fact

[00:37.40]that the annual drug bill of the Health Services is mounting to astronomical figures.

[00:43.38]and shows no signs at present of ceasing to rise.

[00:47.98]The majority of the patients

[00:49.73]attending the medical out-patients departments of our hospitals feel that

[00:54.12]they have not received adequate treatment unless they are able to carry home with them

[00:59.60]some tangible remedy in the shape of a bottle of medicine,

[01:04.01]a box of pills, or a small jar of ointment,

[01:07.88]and the doctor in charge of the department is only too ready to provide them with these requirements.

[01:14.27]There is no quicker method of disposing of patients

[01:17.27]than by giving them what they are asking for,

[01:20.69]and since most medical men in the Health Services are overworked