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According to the title of this conference, we are to discuss the doctor’s job or role expressed in the singular; this, in spite of the obvious fact that the doctor has many jobs. We must, therefore, concern ourselves with an underlying, unifying concept of the doctor. We presumably accept without discussion that the doctor has a research job; that the doctor has a technical job; that the doctor has a teaching job. Our concern is with none of these specifically, and yet with all of them in the sense that in the execution of these tasks the doctor must relate to society in general and to his patient in particular.
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Wolf, S.G., Berle, B.B. (1978). The Challenge for Medical Education. In: Wolf, S.G., Berle, B.B. (eds) Limits of Medicine. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8837-5_4
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