Good day all, back with Robert Beckers The Body Electric, a man ahead of his time, this work here is in stark contrast to the Forbidden Secret reading...

..Medical students often experience a profound, ego-wrenching shock at the midpoint of their training, as the focus shifts from classroom to bedside. My experience was typical, since this division was even sharper in the 1940s than it is today. After two years' study of the scientific underpinnings of medicine, my classmates and I thought we were pretty smart. During long days and longer nights of lectures, notes, labs, books, reviews, papers, and exams, we'd drunk so deeply of the distilled wisdom of the ages that surely we must know all there was to know about bodies and diseases. All that was left, it seemed, was learning how to apply that knowledge as apprentice doctors. Then we began to study with the senior members of the clinical departments, veterans of a less scientific era, who brought us up short. Their message soon became clear: We didn't know so damn much after all; no one did. All our learning was fine as far as it went, but on the hectic wards of Bellevue things often didn't go by the book.

The greatest teacher I had in those days was my surgery professor, Dr. John Mulholland, a granite cliff of a man whose iron-gray crew cut emphasized his uncompromising idealism. Any hint of laziness, impatience, or unconcern from his students brought a brusque reprimand, but Mulholland was gravely polite and compassionate to the dirtiest wino who needed a doctor. He showed us countless problems and techniques in his demonstration-lectures held in the nineteenth-century amphitheater, but he repeated one salient message over and over: "The surgeon can cut, remove, or rearrange the tissues, and sew up the wound, but only the patient can do the healing. Surgeons must always be humble before this miracle. We must treat the tissues with sure, deft gentleness, and above all we must do no harm, for we are nothing more than nature's assistants."
https://exploringrealhistory.blogspot.com/2022/07/part-7-body-electricthe-missing-chapter.html