An interesting piece reported in the Australian Doctor and other media outlets today, where the outgoing editor of the Medical Journal of Australia has taken a swipe at nurses and other health professionals (such as podiatrists) taking over the traditional roles of medical practitioners; Quote: Some 60 years ago, Lord “Tommy” Horder, the doyen of British physicians of that time, addressed a meeting on the theme “Whither medicine?”.1 He suggested that a visitor from Mars would have found such a question incomprehensible and would have responded, “Why, whither else than straight ahead …” It was a time when the role of doctors was unambiguous: to care for patients and draw upon their scientific and clinical training to promote the “forging [of] still more weapons with which to conquer disease …”Now move forward to present times and ask the same question. Sadly, the Martian will be confused
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Wither medicine?
