Summing up this period, it can be said that the success of the modern doctor did not depend on successful therapy but his ability to communicate with his patients, his understanding of disease, and his ability to determine a diagnosis and predict the outcome. Any cure came in second place. But the relationship between the doctor and his patient was extremely good. Coming to the post-modern period an era of wonderful new discoveries and examination methods begins. The ability to diagnose becomes even more significant.
Doctors can, for example, differentiate between various connective tissue disorders.
This difference is vital to the prognosis, which can vary greatly between the diseases. In the field of pharmacology vast innovations take place. All for the well-being of the patient. Patients today search for all kinds of alternative therapies, homeopathy, iridology and so on. The modern era focused on pathological anatomy but in the post modern eara the spotlight was put on biochemistry and pharmacology.