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•     '100 to a Bottle'
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•     'Bronchoscopy'
•     'Case Discussion Before Making Rounds'
•     'The Elderly'
•     'Enzyme Replacement'
•     'Laser Procedure to Prevent Blindness'
•     'Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 3-D'
•     'MRI Film of an AIDS Patient'
•     'Nothing Will Ever Happen to Them'
•     'Not One Millimeter Off'
•     'One Out of Nine'
•     'Pediatric Nephrology Conference'
•     'Peptide Synthesization'
•     'Strategy for Radiation'
•     'Teaching Rounds at Charity'
•     'They Just Melted Away'
•     'Therapeutical Apheresis
•     'Waiting for a New Heart'
•     'World Wide Dissemination of Medical Knowledge'

'Teaching Rounds at Charity'
(ink drawing with tempera and pastel, 22' x 30')
©May H. Lesser

Apart from the computer programs and standardized patient/actors, used in medical school teaching, the human contact still remains as the basis for healing. When the physician is called upon to see more and more patients, quickly, he reaches a saturation point. There is still a human frailty that one can only encompass a certain number of people before one "turns off." Could the emphasis on the mechanical procedures draw the doctor away from human feelings about his patients? And being seen quickly in large numbers, will the patient also lose human compassion for his physician?