A BLESSED WORD.
“Taken as a whole, we-.doctors qaflT on our trade in an honourable, fashion and are imbued with a genuine desire to cheat neither our clients nor ourselves; hut it can hardly he 'denied that the label oJ. neurastlieuiia is often
used in order ito evade a duty—<the duty imposed on us to declare a eo - rect diagnosis,” said Sir/ E. Earquhar Buzzard, reports the,,, “Lancet.” “Whether such action should be regarded as a crime or only as a pardonable misdemeanour is it moral question. I do not propose to discuss; the object of my discourse, is to show, that it i,s not good business. Trie label of "neurasthenia is a bad business proposition for two reason'. In the first place it conveys little or no pathological meaning to your own
mind; in the second place it gives your patient the impression that lie is suffering from a. disease the cause, couise, and outcome of which are equally mysterious to both „of you. “Then it is only nerves-?” iW.will- s£»y ,0 you. And you don’t know what answer to give.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 March 1930, Page 3
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182A BLESSED WORD. Hokitika Guardian, 22 March 1930, Page 3
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