In his NYT article, “Doctors, Revolt!,” medical intern Rich Joseph argues,
“Certainly doctors must understand disease, but medical education is overly skewed toward the biomedical sciences and minutiae about esoteric and rare disease processes. Doctors also need time to engage with the humanities, because they are the gateway to the human experience.”
After his encounter with a patient, who happened to be Dr. Bernard Lown, renowned cardiac physician and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Joseph was inspired. Lown and Joseph met after Lown was discharged from the hospital and “…agreed that the health care system needed to change. To do that, Dr. Lown said, ‘doctors of conscience’ have to ‘resist the industrialization of their profession.’”
Read “Doctors, Revolt!” for more.
Joseph, Rich. “Doctors, Revolt!” The New York Times, 24 February 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/24/opinion/sunday/doctors-revolt-bernard-lown.html?smid=nytcore-ipad-share&smprod=nytcore-ipad. Accessed 5 March 2018.
