Foreword
by Norman Cousins
It is easy to understand the bewilderment of many persons
when they read articles or books about the medical profession.
They read that physicians are primarily interested in building
up their personal incomes; that physicians will overmedicate，
frequently with hazardous drugs; that patients will be exposed
to unnecessary diagnostic and surgical procedures; and that
physicians tend to undervalue nutrition as a factor in main-
taining health and combatting illness.
Other articles and books go to the opposite extreme，
defending the medical profession without qualification. It will
be said that physicians are highly dedicated; that they work
under trying， and often exhausting， conditions; that they are
highly trained professionals who are utilizing modern science
in the service of their patients; and that they are the most
highly respected members of society.
Siegfried Kra dispels the confusion and restores order to
the subject in his analysis of the patient-physician relation-
ship. He deals fully， knowledgeably， and lucidly with the
central questions regarding the medical profession today. He
brings balance and perspective to a difficult， but important，
issue and， in so doing， performs a genuine public service.
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