He described his first “house call” in the 1960s, when he and a senior colleague visited a jovial protestant minister who had no idea that he only had weeks to live, owing to aggressive colon cancer. The senior doctor suggested giving the patient large doses of painkillers, which they would tell the patient were antibiotics to treat an “infection.”
几年前，我就这个话题访问过一位家庭医生。他描述了20世纪60年代他的第一次“出诊”。当时，他和一位资深同事来到一位生性乐观的新教牧师家中，这位牧师不知道，由于结肠癌恶化，他只有几个星期的性命了。这位资深医生建议给患者开大剂量止痛药，并告诉患者这是治疗“传染病”的抗生素。