Abstract
title of Hugh Barber's The Occasion Fleeting comes from the best known Hippocratic aphorism. It deals with his medical career and presents a wise philosophical review of many of the changes which have come over the face of English medicine during the past fifty years. Although some items of the English and London scene are mainly of local interest, there is no problem in finding all kinds of items interesting to anyone concerned with the practice of medicine. subjects range over a wide field of prechnical and clinical medical education: provincial and London hospitals; the influence of pathology, consultants, and specialists; family physicians; clinical skill; the spirit of the family doctor, relatives, and friends; sports; geriatrics; psychosomatic medicine, and annual check-ups. It concludes with a series of charming essays entitled Doctors' Dilemmas. Here is a welcome breath of fresh air for anyone whose olfactory fatigue with the dark
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