Contemporary medical practice has become increasingly discordant with lay expectations.
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Contemporary medical practice has become increasingly discordant with lay expectations. Modern physicians dianose and treat diseases (abnormalities in the structure and function of body organs and systems), whereas patients suffer illnesses (experiences of disvalued changes in states of being and in social function).... Biomedicine has increasingly banished the illness experience as a legitimate object of clinical concern. Carried to its extreme, this orientation, so successful in generating technological interventions, leads to a veterinary practice of medicine.
-- Arthur Kleinman ( Culture, Illness and Cure) -
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