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A 4 page contention that while medicine is evolving to be more humanistic, physicians seem intent on maintaining a solely empirical approach to healing. The author suggests that traditional cultures and women most often prefer the humanistic approach. Age, however, is a variable factor in determining an individual's perception of the ideal role of medicine and physicians. While the old of traditional cultures prefer the humanistic approach, the young of those cultures prefer the empirical. Just the opposite can be observed for mainstream culture. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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an individual places on the roles and obligations of a physician. These can vary in accordance with whether or not the individual doing the defining is in the health
care profession or outside but more often is defined in accordance with such factors as age, gender, and even ethnicity. Sometimes, in fact, there can even be distinctions between
the way nurses and physicians, two of the primary players in the health care field, define that role. Medicine has shifted dramatically over
the past several decades from a discipline which concentrates solely the science of our anatomy and physiology to a discipline which recognizes not only the hard scientific facts of physiology
but also the importance of psychological and sociological factors. Medicine has shifted from the Cartesian way of viewing illness, injury and disease as components of a machine-like body to
one which views illness from not only a biological perspective but also a psychosociological perspective. Physicians sometimes find themselves occupying an awkward role in the new medicine. They
most often pride themselves on their strictly scientific approach to illness and infirmity while the world around them is gradually evolving to value the psychological and social factors which can
equate with disease or infirmity. Nurses, although also trained primarily in an empirical fashion, are typically more prone to viewing medicine from a
holistic perspective, from a perspective which recognizes that there are many causes of illness and to address that illness one must address each of those factors in turn. Nurses
often feel that physicians operate in a sort of "holier than thou" fashion and fail to provide for the emotional and psychological needs of their patients. Physicians operate most
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