Robert C. Smith

Greek physician Hippocrates had it right in the fifth century B.C., says internist Robert C. Smith, M.D., a distinguished professor at Michigan State University and pioneer in patient-centered communication. “Greek clinicians saw no reason to separate patients’ mental and physical elements, viewing them as a single unit. Practitioners incorporated mental disorders into medicine, recognizing melancholia [depression] and mania [bipolar disorder] for example, as part of everyday health care,” he … [Read more...] about Has Medicine Lost Its Mind?