https://overflowdata.com/uncategorized/woi2euv For a brief biography see: Michael Balint – An outstanding medical life.¹

https://proventsystems.com/p5y8x0p0q Balint’s son, John, was a distinguished professor of gastroenterologist and medical ethicist at Albany Medical College. I attended a lecture by him, and it was there that I first heard about Michael Balint and became interested in his opus magnum, The Doctor, His Patient and the Illness.² The Sawyer Library at Williams College has a copy and I checked it out periodically over two decades, but found it hard going. Finally, in 2016, I bought a second-hand copy and decided to wade through it.

https://www.skipintros.com/photos/98539/hadu16dfo8 Early in the book Balint asks: “Why does it happen so often that in spite of earnest effort on both sides, the relationship between doctor and patient is unsatisfactory and unhappy?”

https://bakingbrew.com/recipe/uz1i5a83n My notes from The Doctor, His Patient, and the Illness are on Google Documents,³ and I will summarize the some of the salient points for Hot Spots 2018. The book is a treatise on how medicine has lost some of its focus on essential aspects of the therapeutic relationship. Balint’s son, John, co-authored an article that discusses the important points made by his father.⁴ They identified six main themes that run through Balint’s work:

1. The “basic fault” present in some form in all human beings.
2. The physician’s “apostolic function.”
3. The physician as a therapeutic agent—the “drug doctor.”
4. The “conspiracy of anonymity.”
5. The “deeper diagnosis.”
6. The “mutual investment company.”

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