REPLY
Pathologists Are Doctors
Tsuyoshi Inoshita
1 April 1993 | Volume 118 Issue 7 | Page 575
IN RESPONSE:
I deeply regret if I offended anyone by my essay. It was not meant to compare specialties in any objective or scientific manner but rather to describe my experiences along a convoluted career path. Any apparently negative description of pathology was only intended to depict me as a misfit in that specialty because of my personal shortcomings and was definitely not intended to denigrate it or its important function.
I understand that modern medicine is a team effort. As a newly minted clinician, I have a productive, cordial, and intellectually stimulating relationships with my pathologist colleagues. I am accepted as someone who speaks their language, and we share a mutual respect.
In the end, I cling to the rather romantic, albeit possibly archaic, notion of rugged individualism in medicine now invaded by bureaucratization. The strength of internal medicine, at least for those so inclined, is the heart-to-heart interaction between the physician and the patient.
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