March Focus

[摘要] On page 236 Morten Rostrup describes his experience as a Médecins Sans Frontières doctor in Aceh after the tsunami. The utter devastation made any semblance of standard medical care extremely difficult, so that even there, it seems, some fundamental principles reasserted themselves: ‘The most that I could do in these cases was to listen.’ Listening to patients' needs, rather than telling them what we, or someone else, want them to hear is the key to Mike Fitzpatrick's reaction to being asked to be the agents of the government's public health initiative (page 247), just as it shone through in the account of John Sassall's life in A Fortunate Man, celebrated by Gene Feder on page 246.

[学科分类] 卫生学