Charlotte Blease: The Medicine Game
11:15 Sat 3 Nov 2012 The Barbour Room
New Generation Thinker
We trust the 36,000 GPs in this country to work out what is wrong with us. But how much of what they do is guesswork?
Philosopher of Medicine Charlotte Blease of Queen’s University Belfast argues that the relationship between doctors and patients is built on a phoney image of medicine, and instead diagnosis involves playing the "medicine game".
We trust the 36,000 GPs in this country to work out what is wrong with us. But how much of what they do is guesswork?
Philosopher of Medicine Charlotte Blease of Queen’s University Belfast argues that the relationship between doctors and patients is built on a phoney image of medicine, and instead diagnosis involves playing the "medicine game".
