![]() ![]() The powerful new drugs changed how care was given as well as who gave it. ![]() ![]() The result, in the view of some, has been a shift in the profession from caregiver to technician. The Demon Under the Microscope by Thomas Hager By Bernard Dixon 6 September 2006 THE key event in the emergence of antibiotics, says Thomas Hager, was not the introduction of penicillin in. They routinely perform what were once considered miracles. Today they act: They prescribe, they treat, they cure. A century ago most physicians were careful, conservative observers who provided comfort to patients and their families. The demon under the microscope : from battlefield hospitals to Nazi labs, one doctors heroic search for the worlds first miracle drug / Thomas Hager. ![]() Aspiring caregivers today are chosen as much (or more) for their scientific abilities, their talent for mastering these manifold technological and pharmaceutical advances as for their interpersonal skills. One that has been shaped to a great degree by the successful development of potent cures that followed the discovery of sulfa drugs. “Where there were once several competing approaches to medicine, there is now only one that matters to most hospitals, insurers, and the vast majority of the public. ![]()
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