How a Century-Old Mindset Still Shapes the Way Patients Are Seen and Heard I’ve been thinking a lot about why the doctor–patient relationship can feel so distant.And when you peel back the layers, it goes way back — more than a hundred years. Where This All Started Around 1910, the Flexner Report reshaped medical training across the U.S.It pushed a strict “science first, emotions last” model. By the 1920s–1950s, that mindset had become the blueprint. Doctors were taught to:
Nov 27, 20252 min read
"If no one else was telling their story, then maybe I needed to tell mine. And maybe, just maybe, that would give others permission to share theirs too."
