Doctoring the Evidence
Rupert Goodwins reflects on the medical experience of losing his sight and finds that modern medicine is not as far removed from the medieval experience as some would think.
The experience of being a patient in modern medicine is little discussed by doctors and often badly handled by the media. Through months of investigation as the medics tried to find the why behind the what, Rupert Goodwins finds much has changed in what it means to be a patient, and old assumptions are not a good guide for what will happen next.
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