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Dehumanization in today's medical practice is the standard of care. This has been especially common since the institution of the hospitalists. Patients are no longer often managed by their primary care doctor. They are often dressed half-naked, identified by their disease (ie the gallbladder in room 325), and treated as though they cannot participate in making...

  Drs. Welby and Kildare are now a thing of the past for the most part. Today's fragmented health care has lost the personal relationship between doctor and patient and is oriented to saving money and getting people back on their feet and back to work as quickly as possible. The personal relationship where a healer listens and cares has become "unaffordable"...