Show th That a to BI Body 0 d y of yours by JAMES W BARTON at D treating the patient not the ailment T THE HE physician A aho ho tins has had to start stan with less hospital training than lie felt be needed often regrets this and frola feels that be would he be doing much oetter belter work had tie be been able to stay even a few ew months longer about the hospital bios altal now no one would question the value of 0 hosp hospital itai training with all the available in born tortes xray X ray hayand and physia therapy departments out but there mil roily y be the danger that while various tests are being made valuable time Is being lost not that thai this occurs very often but it dues does occur however the real danger from too much hospital experience Is that the disease or the suspected disease Is always in the physicians mind and the patient lil himself Is in the background many of the symptoms of which the patient com complains pains may not really exist except to in tits his mind dr walter C Q alvarez It Ko chester ochester minn tells us that patients who complain of physical ailments are often really mental patients these patients do not talk about their mental lymp toms but discover physical ailments in stomach liver kidneys lungs longs heart beart or other organs their description of the symptoms of any one of these all ail ments may be lust just enough like the g genuine enuine symptoms that the physician naturally makes various tests to see it if he has the right diagnosis the thought Is that it if as dr 0 V F martin montreal suggests every patient coming in to see his doctor Is considered a mental patient much less lesa time would be lost in finding out the patients real ailment than if elaborate laboratory and other oilier tests ar are e first made I 1 for instance what one eats Is less important than how it Is eaten one should never eat when tired doctor alvarez suggests to ghys phys I 1 clans that if a patient does not la im prove todo no DO more laboratory work but talk to him and get a real history of his bis case I 1 I 1 the thou thought I 1 9 lit for the patient 1 I 1 when h he e goes to his doctor he should tell him everything about his dome com e and business life and about his habits bablis instead of just about these aue queer r symptoms which way may or or may ayt t really exist I 1 h dentists to be medical specialists thy THE fact that most ailments come by way ot of the mouth and nose Is ot of cour course e known to everybody but that the teeth because of the loss of them because of their irregularity preventing a r real eat chewing sur face and the infection to ID their roots cause many and grave ailments Is no not generally known however both the dental and in medical ed professions know this and practically all disagreements as to the right thing to do in any case are now at an andas end as the dentist and 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 history ol oi the case when that case has come in for dental treat 1 ment it some idea of how dentists and physicians are now getting together may be gathered from the statement of dr il 51 0 dean of the yale university school of medicine it Is absolutely necessary for human ft ell being that medicine should foster the training of 0 specialists who will all be on at an equal footing and who will have regard for the patient at as a physical mental and social organism and it must not nol be forgotten that the teeth are a part pan of the physical organism your body dentistry must have hare the same relation loo as any other specialty to medicine as a whole thai is be on the same standing as the nose dose arid and throat specialist the eye specialist the heart or other specialist at yale fale university 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 dentistry and giving them material 1 assistance to take the degree of doctor of medicine while continuing to practice dentistry it Is likely to be a number of years before dentists by taking extra studies at al the Died cal leal college and clinics at ai the hospitals will became really in one branch of medicine that thai Is the mouth however the big thing Is that the heretofore wanted to io follow his dentists advice because he had confidence in him and likewise his physicians advice for the same reason will nill hereafter get the best advice of both because there will be but the one profession and dentists will be specialists in the profession of medicine service i |