Abstract
The Utopian naivity with which we used to view medicine and its roles is past. No longer can we afford the comfortable, but unrealistic, luxuries of assuming that the roles of the physician are to heal and of the patient to be healed and that their relationship is sacrosanct and must not be interfered or tampered with.
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Bryant, J. (1969). Health and the Developing World (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press)
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Fry, J. (1978). Health Care and its Problems. In: A New Approach to Medicine. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-1138-4_1
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