II. THE NATURE OF SOCIAL WORK, ESPE-

CIALLY IN ITS RELATION TO MEDI-

III. TEAM-WORK OF DOCTOR, EDUCATOR,

AND SOCIAL WORKER, AND THE RE-

SULTING CHANGES IN THE THREE

PROFESSIONS-A REVIEW AND A

PROGRAMME

IV. TEAM-WORK OF DOCTOR AND PATIENT

THROUGH THE ANNIHILATION OF

LYING

V. SOCIAL WORK IN HOSPITALS; THE

PALLIATION OF ABSENT-MINDEDNESS

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SOCIAL SERVICE

AND THE

ART OF HEALING

SOCIAL SERVICE AND THE

ART OF HEALING

CHAPTER I

BACKGROUNDS AND FOREGROUNDS IN MEDICAL WORK

THERE are two kinds of blindness from which I have suffered in my medical work. As I am now beginning to be convalescent, I note, with the sensibility of the recent sufferer, similar misfortunes in those around me. Blindness to what is before you just this minute and never before, or blindness to foregrounds, is a very common disease, due to the habit of looking off into the distance over the head (as it were) of the fact before you.

But there is another type of blindness in which the sufferer can see nothing ex