The Water Cooler, a Font of Good Medicine - New York Times

The Water Cooler, a Font of Good Medicine - New York Times: "No longer is a well patient with a sick gallbladder of medical interest for her gallbladder alone. With doctors increasingly exhorted to care for the whole patient, not just the disease, that gallbladder is often examined in its full context, and all social information - what might be considered gossip in any other context - becomes relevant."