Excerpt from The Patient's View Point These conditions exist and cannot be ignored. Shall we allow the enemy of the legitimate physician to invade the sacred precincts of the practice of medicine, using as his entering wedge an aspect in the care of the sick which we have come to ignore; or shall we, true to our trust, treat our patient as a man who is sick, instead of looking upon him merely as the possessor of an interesting disease? In our consideration of the patient's viewpoint we must penetrate more deeply than the mere visual requirements which such an angle might imply. The patient's viewpoint comprises primarily his best interests, the consideration due him, which is by virtue of his lack of medical training beyond his ken. The patient's viewpoint can only be adequately embraced by a medical mind, endowed with the patience to return to its pre-medical point of View. For each error which the author venti lates, a remedy is offered which experience has shown will heal the wounds to which it is applied. Men have enjoyed the isms of the faddists as intellectual recreation. The World War, however, brought out the inadequacy of a fad as death's companion and men are reaching for essential truths. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.