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Richard J. G. Rycroft, MD

Arch Dermatol. 2002;138:1435-1436.

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Disaffected doctors are now, I have heard, a worldwide phenomenon. How can this be, given the satisfactions that the practice of medicine offers? Some say it is simply the burden of overwork; others, the microsupervisory and hyperaccountability culture of audit and appraisal; some even, the domination of our journals by impenetrable genetics and improbable epidemiology. The real reasons may be hard to identify, yet we may still be able to counteract them. Some medicines work even when we don't know why.

Let me tell you, if I may, about a trip that I made some time ago to see Jack. We had been exchanging letters for the past 10 years, ever since I had read his engaging biography of Samuel Johnson, the 18th-century English literary critic, lexicographer, and poet. I had been giving a dermatology lecture at Yale and found myself the next morning, in . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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