Well: Doctor Priorities vs. Patient Priorities

Friday, March 28, 2014 - 02:50 in Health & Medicine

For my patient, his wide-angle lens took in the whole of his life, of which diabetes was one small part. For me, in the 20 minutes allotted, my lens was narrowly focused on the disease that posed the gravest and most immediate risk to his health.

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