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PATIENT RESPONSE TO SYMPTOMS
Author(s) -
Smith M. C.,
Sharpe T. R.,
Banahan B. F.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
journal of clinical pharmacy and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.622
H-Index - 73
eISSN - 1365-2710
pISSN - 0269-4727
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2710.1981.tb01003.x
Subject(s) - cowardice , evening , history , battle , psychology , psychoanalysis , ancient history , archaeology , physics , astronomy
‘Poor devils,’ (the physician) said as he sank down in a worn easy chair. ‘So scared and so stupid—no sense. Had a painful case this evening. Woman who ought to have come to me a year ago. If she'd come then, she might have been operated on successfully. Now it's too late, makes me mad. The truth is people are an extraordinary mixture of heroism and cowardice. She's been suffering agony and borne it without a word, just because she was too scared to come and find out that what she feared might be true. At the other end of the scale are the people who come and waste my time because they've got a dangerous swelling causing them agony on their little finger which they think may be cancer and which turns out to be a common or garden chilblain.’ (1)