Minot

“The results of treatment are often very difficult to evaluate – and for many reasons. One of them is the overenthusiasm of the doctor – particularly of the so-called specialist: the other is the modern tendency to forget the value of the simplest clinical methods – a complete and careful history and a complete and careful physical examination, with attention to the patient as a whole human being. Clinical vision should be sharpened and not dulled by the light of science (from introduction to his course on applied physiology to 3rd year Harvard students, 1918; (Rackemann, 117-18; cf. 204, 244, 249).