Show that body of yours by JAMES W BARTON al D treating the patient not the ailment THE who tins tills nad bad to blurt practice iiri tite with less tk hospital training than ne fie tell tit tie needed often regrets egrets tilts alila and feels that thai ne be kulild be doing much better belter work had ne he been able to stay sta wien een a tev lew months longer about the hospital now no one would question the value or hospital lio s apitai tra ining wish all the be available xray X ray and physiotherapy 0 departments but there may be the danger that while varlo various ull te tests ts ore are being made valuable time Is lost not kol that this flits occurs very often but it does occur sunn times however the real dunber from too much hospital experience Is that the hie disease or the suspected disease la 19 always in the file physicians mind and the he patient himself Is 19 in 1 background many of the symptoms of which th patient com pallis may kiy not really exist except in tits his mind pr dr wallar U C aharen it lluch ochester esier minn tells us that patients who corn coin plain of physical ailments are often really mental patients these patients do not talk about their mental symptoms but bill discher disc ner physical ailments all merits in stoma stomach cb liver kidneys lungs heart or other organs their description lon of the symptoms of any one of at these ail ments may be just enough like the genuine symptoms that the physician naturally makes various tests to see if he has the right diagnosis the thought Is that it as dr 0 P F martin montreal suggests every patient coming in to see tits his doctor Is 8 considered a mental patient much less time would be lost in finding out the patients real aliment ailment than if elaborate laboratory and other tests are first made for instance what one eats Is less important than how it Is eaten one should never eat when tired doctor alvarez suggests to physicians that if a patient does not improve to do no more laboratory work but talk to him and get a real history of his case the thought for the patient Is 19 that w when hen he goes to his doctor be should tell him everything about his home and business life and about his habits instead of just about these queer symptoms which may or may not really exist a 0 0 dentists to be medical specialists HE fact that most ailments come T THE by way of the mouth and nose Is of 0 course known to everybody but that the teeth because of the loss of them because of their irregularity preventing a real chewing sur face and the infection in their roots cause many and grave aliments ailments Is not generally known however both the dental aud and medical professions know this and practically all disagreements as to the right thing to do to in any case are now at an end as the dentist and aad doctor think only of the patients welfare the trouble has been that physicians have not known as much about teeth and their defects as they should have known and dentists have not known the whole history ot of the case when that case has come in for dental treatment some idea of how dentists and phy are now getting together may lie be gathered from the statement of lr dr M U C V dean clean of the yale university school of medicine it Is absolutely necessary for human well ell being that medicine should fuster the training of specialists who will all be on oil an equal fouling fluting and who will have hare for regard the patient a as a physical mental and social octal organism and it must not be forgotten thai tha the teeth are a part pan of the physical organism lour jour body dentistry must have the some same relation as any other specialty to medicine as a whole that thai Is be on the same standing as the nose and throat specialist the eye list the heart or other special at yale university tills this view Is be ing carried into effect by bringing into the school of medicine a few of the best available graduates of schools of 1 and giving then them material assistance to take the degree of doctor dictor nf if medicine alle nalle con continuing tInnIng to practice tice dentistry it Is likely to be a number of years before dentists by taking extra 9 ill at the medical college and clinics at the file hospitals will became really ape in one branch of medicine that Is the mouth wever the big thing is that tho patient who heretofore wanted to rol fol low his big dentists advice because hf had confidence in him and likewise tits his physicians advice for the sunn saint reason will hereafter get the best advice of both because there will be but the one profession and dentists will be specialists lists in the profession of medicine t service |