Hold my hand while you misdiagnose me

A response to the high flyers

“…O f course I respect the views of the authors who responded to our article, 1 but I was left immensely disheartened by their letter. 2 It is widely accepted that the practice of Medicine is a Science and an Art, an application of the study of both disease and illness. To ignore the Art creates biomedical monsters who have no regard or understanding of human nature, and who treat patients as bags of enzymes, and to ignore the Science is to foster the belief that physical disease is a rarity not worthy of pursuit in investigation or treatment.…”