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The Sorcerer's Broom: Medicine's Rampant Technology
Hastings Center Report 23 (6):32-39 (1993)
Abstract
Like the broom in “The Sorcerer's Apprentice,” technologies take on a life of their own. To bring them under control, doctors must learn to tolerate ambiguity, resist the lure of the immediate, cease fearing uncertainty, and rechannel their response to wonder.Other Versions
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