Sadly, this “decoupling” is not limited to medicine. My late husband was a commercial pilot for a major airline and also instructed for them on the Airbus. He was deeply dismayed at the young guns who had no love for the machine. In his words, they didn’t have ‘good hands’, depending instead on new, computerized, fly-by-wire systems.

I pray daily I never need to visit a hospital. My primary care doctor has not once, in eight years, touched me, except to place her stethoscope on my heart. Beautiful essay and thoughts from Dr. Miller. Thank you both.