The Sorcerer's Broom: Medicine's Rampant Technology

Hastings Center Report 23 (6):32-39 (1993)
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Abstract

Like the broom in “The Sorcerer's Apprentice,” technologies take on a life of their own. To bring them under control, doctors must learn to tolerate ambiguity, resist the lure of the immediate, cease fearing uncertainty, and rechannel their response to wonder.

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