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To the Editor: In addressing the challenge of "doctoring doctors," Dr Schneck1 highlights the anachronistic choice by physician/patients of inappropriate collegial relationships rather than the more appropriate physician-patient relationship. The complexities of this preference are embodied in this folkloric tongue-twister2:
If a doctor is doctoring a doctor
Does the doctor doing the doctoring
Doctor the doctor being doctored
The way the doctor being doctored
Wants to be doctored,
Or does the doctor doctoring the doctor
Doctor the doctor being doctored
The way the doctoring doctor usually doctors?
Why would a physician who "wants to be doctored" ever want to be doctored differently from "the way the doctoring doctor usually doctors?" Physician/patients seek personal physicians on a social rather than professional basis for the same reasons they fail to acknowledge patients' psychosocial concerns. Physicians generally deny emotions in themselves as they do in their patients. To sustain this scotoma they . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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