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To the Editor:— Some writers of poems and novels are full of literature and have little life in their books. It's living that makes good writing. So it is with a good doctor. First he has to know that patients are living persons, not problems. Dr. John C. Harvey's article concerning house officer training ( JAMA 185 :764 [Sept 7] 1963) suggests that he doesn't know. And, more important, he doesn't teach that. The job of the teachers of doctors is to provide large numbers of persons who are competent to service the people of the world, to lead them from a derangement of life in which they are diseased to another in which they are less diseased, or, hopefully, to a state in which they are not diseased at all. The teacher also must provide teachers to replace himself. The investigators will come from both sets of his pupils. But
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