What are the motifs in Becoming a Doctor: A Journey of Initiation in Medical School by Melvin Konner?

Bedside Manners is a frequent complaint and occasional compliment about doctors is their "bedside manner." It is an open question whether a patient can return to health as well from a highly educated and experienced medical scientist as from a sensitive caring healer. In his experience as anthropologist in Africa, Konner was exposed to ritually primitive tribal healers who restored health to sick natives.