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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1920
Page
6
A Nebraska medical association president in Omaha urges written, signed diagnoses and prognoses to inform patients. The column notes the impracticality of universal adoption, citing the imperfect science of medicine and doctors' occasional errors, and ends with a joke about printers missing errors.
In medical practice the diagnosis drives care as a patient presents with pain and uncertain localization. The clinician weighs symptoms and possible conditions while the patient recounts his tale and seeks relief.
The text describes a doctor delaying a diagnosis waiting for clearer signs and fears a confession of ignorance could ruin a physician’s reputation if the patient seeks another medic with evolving symptoms. It portrays Dr Orr’s plan and the risk of premature conclusions.
A reflective column argues that protected doctors benefit the public by removing bad practitioners, yet a culture of mystery surrounds the profession. It notes how even specialists align with colleagues’ diagnoses, cites Dr Orr’s plan as a future possibility, and remarks on census data showing eastward empire growth and Horace Greeley’s old guidance.
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