The complete online text of Doctor and Patient by Silas Weir Mitchell.

Although now largely forgotten, S. Weir Mitchell was once a celebrity: a prominent Philadelphia physician, America's foremost neurologist, and a best-selling author. Mitchell's controversial "rest cure" for neurasthenia was administered to such literary...

The scene is repeated often in doctors' offices, clinics and hospital emergency rooms every day. A patient complains of a cold, a dry hacking cough, the flu or an upset stomach and requests an antibiotic. Does the doctor patiently explain that these maladies...

The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 06-07-2000 ON DOCTOR-PATIENT RELATIONS Date: 06-07-2000, Wednesday Section: OPINION Edition: All Editions -- Two Star B, Two Star P, One Star B Column: YOUR VIEWS Regarding "Divorcing your doctor" (Health, Page H-1, June 5), on problems with...

Access to health care in the war-shattered Somali capital is rapidly diminishing because violence is forcing doctors and patients to stay home, an aid agency said Monday, describing the situation as "shocking."A land mine explosion, meanwhile, injured four civilians in Mogadishu near the venue where...

"When Doctors Become Patients" (Oxford University Press, 333 pages, $35), by Robert Klitzman: At 8:30 a.m. on Sept. 11, 2001, Robert Klitzman's sister, Karen, called her best friend from her office on the 105th floor of the World Trade Center. No one ever heard from...