At the recently concluded centenary celebrations of the K. E. M. Hospital in Bombay, the living legend of medicine, Dr Farokh Erach Udwadia, delivered an inspiring oration on "The changing face of medicine.”
Dr Farokh Udwadia: living legend of medicine
Udwadia bemoaned the transformation of medicine from an art into a technical science. He correctly mourned the lack of ability of the modern-day physician to take a detailed case history, examine a patient thoroughly and make a diagnosis based on his observations, aided often with instinctual insight, in order to heal the patient without a plethora of investigations. He did not......