Doctoring is not the art of
keeping people in health
keeping people in health
"Doctoring is not even the art of keeping the people in health" is a thought-provoking remark of G.W. Shaw in his essay "Are Doctors Men of Science?". This remark is quite justified and I too agree with him. Through this remark he is trying to tell us that the duty of a doctor is only to cure illness and not to keep people healthy. A doctor is always consulted when a person is only suffering from some kind of ailment. In that case the doctor only diagnoses the ailment and prescribes the suitable medicine for its remedy. This means he is not trying to keep his patient healthy but only curing the particular disease.
To keep oneself healthy demands more than just medicine i.e., proper diet, proper exercise and proper fitness. If a person has all these things, then he remains healthy. Hence, keeping oneself healthy and curing a disease, are poles apart. These are two different fields. Doctors only deal with one field and ignore the other. Hence, Shaw's remark "Doctoring is not even the art of keeping people in health" is quite right and justified.
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