The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed.
Ethically, I think pretty much every code of ethics for doctors suggests that they should not be in an interrogation room, particularly if there's anything coercive or abusive going on.
I would welcome processes that eliminate the need for doctors. We bottle-neck things around doctors, and it's not a good way of doing things.
You know, in playing a role like this, you really want to get it right, because this is a person who was revered by so many doctors, women doctors especially.
Doctors are human; they make mistakes, and you have to stay on top of them. You have to ask the second question, the third question, the follow-up to the fourth question.
Doctors are kind of this shibboleth in our society. We know what they do, and we depend on them, but we don't know a lot about what it feels like from their side.
Our interaction as patients with the NHS should be on the basis that there's a presumption that all information is shared with us.
If people understood that doctors weren't divine, perhaps the odor of malpractice might diminish.
Whatever art form you're working in, it's crucial to see it clearly, to feel it clearly, and not to worry about the results, or how someone else will see it.
A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world.