FAITH IN DRUGS
This is a skeptical age, but although our faith in many of the things in which our
forefathers fervently believed has weakened, our confidence in the curative
properties of the bottle of medicine remains the same as theirs.The majority of the
patients attending the outpatient departments of our hospitals feel that they have not
received adequate treatment unless they are able to carry home with them some
tangible remedy in the shape of a bottle of medicine, a box of pills, or a small jar of
ointment, and the doctor in charge of the department is only too ready to provide
them with these requirements. There is no quicker method of disposing of patients
than by giving them what they are asking for, and since most medical personnel in
the health services are overworked and have little time for offering time-consuming
and little-appreciated advice on such subjects as diet, right living, and the need for
abandoning bad habits, etc., the bottle, the box, and the jar are almost always
granted to them.
E X E R C I S E 1: Find words or phrases in the passage which mean the same as:
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