By Jerome Lowenstein. 128 pp. New Haven, Conn., Yale University Press, 1997. $17.50. ISBN 0-300-06816-6.
Attending physicians who think they enliven rounds with housestaff and students by recounting the days of the giants —how things were when they were in training — often findthat their bleary-eyed auditors have little interest in ancienthistory. They are too worn out to stand with Newton on the shouldersof giants and too busy for another recital of how wonderfulit was back then. The chorus of their beepers is a shrill reminderthat today's residents and medical students believe that theyare living in the days of the giants and that you,the professor,are . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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