What is mean by 'conversational treatment' is to stimulate the patient's natural healing abilities through ideas. "( p.168) Indeed, Western medicine often treats the patient as a broken machine, with medicine or surgery used to" repair "the machine.
的確，西醫在診療技術上常把病人視為一部故障的機器，而以開藥和動手術做為「修復」機器的手段。