{"pk":48060,"title":"What's the Problem?","subtitle":null,"abstract":"We physicians get so focused, so specialized, we become organ doctors not people doctors.  We deal with the disease the patient has rather than the patient who happens to have a disease.  This is true for any illness and I suspect for the majority of specialists--though I believe family doctors and pediatricians are more aware of the social implications of a disease than we cardiac surgeons who have had ninety years of training and can only do our work in a hospital surrounded by a staff of fourteen and equipment that monitors everything including fingernail growth.","language":"en","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Medical Humanities"},{"word":"problem"},{"word":"heart surgery"},{"word":"penis"},{"word":"Arts and Humanities"},{"word":"Medicine"}],"section":"Medical Humanities","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0mh2w1d2","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Larry","middle_name":"","last_name":"Zaroff","name_suffix":"","institution":"Stanford University","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2008-02-28T08:00:00Z","date_accepted":"2008-02-28T08:00:00Z","date_published":"2009-11-25T08:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cla_jlta/article/48060/galley/36198/download/"}]}