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Widespread criticism of current medical practice suggests that the technical benefits of modern medical science' have been offset by the disintegration of personalized relationships between doctors and patients.When the practice of medicine was dominated by the general practitioner with firm roots in his community, the physician managed his patients with authoritarian control.However, the doctor's practice was based on his direct knowledge of the patient as a person living within the context of family and neighborhood.This knowledge tempered the physician's authoritarianism by giving him the opportunity to make personalized, though technical, decisions and to inspire motivation for therapy in his patients.In recent decades, the rapid rise of population and the changes in
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