HUMANIZING MEDICINE

In this lecture to a live audience, the author bangs the microphone and takes inaudible questions from the skeptical listeners. No statement he makes has any relationship to any previous or following one. He claims to be an experienced psychotherapist who depends 90% on interpreting patients' dreams. Stating that he knows "nothing about medicine," he presumptuously makes stabs at how it can be improved, using undefined terms such as “modernism” and “soul.” Unprepared "uhs" punctuate his rambling discourse. As far as science goes, he boasts that he needs no evidence to corroborate his successes in therapy or his advice on how to make medicine “more human." Potential listeners should abandon any hope they will learn something useful. J.A.H. © AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine [Published: MARCH 2010]