Pinker's argument is strong--all of medical practice invokes medical humanities, and any separation of the practice of medicine and medical humanities is artificial, distancing humanities from its necessary central position in patient care. However Wieseltsier's very practical fear of humanities corruption resonates deeply. The solution demands stronger, better financed, independent humanities departments (hard to get in today's academic financial environment), infusing them into medicine's day-to-day workings more than ever before.
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