Grand Rounds #52

Filed in archive Biotech/Science Blogs on September 21, 2005

The 52nd Issue of the Grand Rounds is up at Sound Practice. This round's medical blogs revolves around the doctor-patient relationship. With drug discovery and development being one of, if not THE, main output of biotechnology, I think we should all bring back the focus to the entity all these efforts are for: the patient. As Dr. Kent Bottles quotes:

"The good physician knows his patients through and through, and his knowledge is bought dearly. Time, sympathy and understanding must be lavishly dispensed, but the reward is to be found in that personal bond which forms the greatest satisfaction of the practice of medicine. One of the essential qualities of the clinician is interest in humanity, for the secret of the care of the patient is in caring for the patient."

Head on there for this week's best in medical blogging.