The answer to this is no. The modern era doctor in Professor Shorter's model was a good doctor and we must understand this. I'd like to see the media stop reporting about sensational plastic surgery and start writing about the good doctor - the listening, caring doctor. This is the one who produces cheaper, more efficient health. Auscultation, palpation and percussion is cheap.
Tomography is expensive and so is heart surgery.
These latter are high technology medical care. In twenty years time Professor Shorter will write about the doctor who knows more about economics, generics and claim forms than history taking and clinical investigation. God save us from this doctor. Let us demand a good doctor. Dr Noren was the main speaker at our Silver Jubilee Conference in June 1994.