Can we return to the days of yore? Probably not. All we can do now is try to inject some level of humanity and empathy as we see our patients in today’s world of mechanized medicine.
Dr. Goldstein, medical editor of Cardiology News, is a professor of medicine at Wayne State University and the division head emeritus of cardiovascular medicine at Henry Ford Hospital, both in Detroit. He is on data safety monitoring committees for the National Institutes of Health and several pharmaceutical companies.