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In the end, however, the struggle between caring and curing is not likely to be resolved by invention or innovation. The next generation of doctors may appreciate that medicine is a fine art of human care; their patients may accept the constraints on physicians and resist the temptation to blame them for an absence of miracles. But even if relations ease, the challenges to patients and doctors will still grow. The practice of medicine, though it may become ever more precise, will never again be simple, never cheap and never magic.
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CREDIT: From a poll of 1,012 adult Americans taken for TIME/CNN on April 4-5 by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman. Sampling is plus 3%.
CAPTION: SATISFACTION AND DISSATISFACTION
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CREDIT: From a poll of 1,012 adult Americans taken for TIME/CNN on April 4-5 by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman. Sampling is plus 3%.
CAPTION: MALPRACTICE
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CREDIT: From a poll of 1,012 adult Americans taken for TIME/CNN on April 4-5 by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman. Sampling is plus 3%.
CAPTION: PRESTIGE