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What part in society does the doctor play in 2025?What unique role do doctors play in the healthcare team?And what sort of profession will resident doctors training today find when they become consultants and general practitioners?In 1931, John Ryle, one time physician to Guy's Hospital, professor of social medicine at Oxford, and Regius professor of physic at Cambridge, gave a compelling description of the role of the doctor.Writing in Guy's Hospital Reports, he said, "As a rule, differing but little in natural endowments and early training from others who are given the advantages of a higher education, a doctor is nevertheless expected to combine in one person the attributes of scientist, healer, priest, and prophet."
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