Harold D. Paxton, M.D., discusses his medical education years, his long career in neurosurgery, and his experiences on the faculty at the University of Oregon Medical School. He comments on the tension between medicine and law, the evolution of the physician-patient relationship, the looming shortage of physicians, and the rise of specialization and its possible impact on the future of the sole practitioner.
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