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Doctor and Patient

S. Weir Mitchell

Publisher: Good Press

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Summary

The essays which compose this volume deal chiefly with a variety of subjects to which every physician must have given more or less thought. Some of them touch on matters concerning the mutual relation of physician and patient, but are meant to interest and instruct the laity rather than the medical attendant. The larger number have from their nature a closer relation to the needs of women than of men.
Available since: 11/29/2019.
Print length: 172 pages.

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