Mandell H
William W. Backus Hospital, Norwich, Connecticut.
Yale J Biol Med. 1992 May-Jun;65(3):183-7.
Programs for humanities and medicine are growing in a number of medical schools in the U.S.A. Proponents of the programs, which are intended to bring together humanists, scientists, physicians, and others, believe that broadening the background of physicians will put a more human face on the practice of medicine, despite its increasingly technological nature. There is little to support this premise, and its successes and failures are not measurable. There are reasons to support the programs, however, but they have more to do with what physicians like and want to do than with what is therapeutic for them.
美国许多医学院中，人文与医学项目正在不断增加。这些项目旨在将人文学者、科学家、医生及其他人员汇聚在一起，其支持者认为，尽管医学的技术性质日益增强，但拓宽医生的背景将使医疗实践更具人文关怀。几乎没有证据支持这一前提，而且其成败也无法衡量。然而，有理由支持这些项目，但它们更多地与医生喜欢做和想做的事情有关，而不是与对他们有治疗作用的事情有关。
