A third aspect of Georges Canguilhem's Writings on Medicine is how each of us relates to disease and to our efforts to deal with diseases that afflict us. What does a doctor owe to a patient? A patient may think in terms of healing, their subjective evaluation of the effects of treatment. The doctor may prefer to think about cure-an objective, measurable outcome, a result that validates their intervention. But the doctor's hope of curing a patient is an illusion.
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