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The Evolving Art of Medicine

The Evolving Art of Medicine Abstract My theme today is the steadily changing significance of the term art as applied to medicine and the imperatives that this long evolution has finally exerted on the role of internal medicine in medical education and in the practice of medicine. One aspect of the art of medicine has remained steadfast from earliest time. This is the facet of the healing art derived from what Osler has called "the primal sympathy of man with man," his instinctive "desire to help those in sorrow, need and sickness," and it runs as a golden thread through the entire history of medicine from its most primitive expression to the elaborate scientific discipline of today. This golden thread may, from time to time, have been obscured by man's baser reactions, but it always reappears intact and untarnished. It influences even the quack and the charlatan to a modicum of altruism, it restrains somewhat the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Archives of Internal Medicine American Medical Association

The Evolving Art of Medicine

Archives of Internal Medicine , Volume 112 (4) – Oct 1, 1963

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Publisher
American Medical Association
Copyright
Copyright © 1963 American Medical Association. All Rights Reserved.
ISSN
0003-9926
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1538-3679
DOI
10.1001/archinte.1963.03860040051002
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Abstract

Abstract My theme today is the steadily changing significance of the term art as applied to medicine and the imperatives that this long evolution has finally exerted on the role of internal medicine in medical education and in the practice of medicine. One aspect of the art of medicine has remained steadfast from earliest time. This is the facet of the healing art derived from what Osler has called "the primal sympathy of man with man," his instinctive "desire to help those in sorrow, need and sickness," and it runs as a golden thread through the entire history of medicine from its most primitive expression to the elaborate scientific discipline of today. This golden thread may, from time to time, have been obscured by man's baser reactions, but it always reappears intact and untarnished. It influences even the quack and the charlatan to a modicum of altruism, it restrains somewhat the

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Archives of Internal MedicineAmerican Medical Association

Published: Oct 1, 1963

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