TitleEnmeshed in Metaphor The Scientific Philosophical and Satirical Essays of Samuel Vaisrub MDAuthors and Affiliations Alan Blum MDProfessor and Gerald Leon Wallace Endowed Chair in Family MedicineB ID: 899282
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Creating Space: April Hamilton, ONTheme: Title: Enmeshed in Metaphor: The Scientific, Philosophical, and Satirical Essays of Samuel Vaisrub, MD Author(s) and Affiliation(s): Alan Blum, MD , Professor and Gerald Leon Wallace Endowed Chair in Family Medicine, Body of Text: (Maximum 300 words) The “triple threat” physicianinspiring teacher, skilled clinician, and prolific author Vaisrub disliked authors who suppress humour and editors who delete it. His own light (and sometimes bawdy) touch is everywhere in his writing. As a linguisticonscience of sorts, he objected to clumsy grammar and the use of jargon but chose well - deserved rest.” Believing that medicine was ever “precariously balanced on the edge of uncertainty,” he reminded the physicianreader of the necessity of making decisions based on clinical judgment rather than primarily on endless sophisticated tests. Sensing technology was being substituted for compassion and testing for talk, he wondered whether the patient would have to be the compassionate one! And he chidingly suggested
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that genetic engineering could never be entirely successful until “sociobiologists assign a locus on the DNA strand to compassion and respect for life’s sanctity.”Vaisrub constantly reminded us that the physician is an equal member of society: a friend, a coreligionist, an advisor, and above all a human beingbut never a supergod. Keywords: (maximum of 3) Samuel Vaisrub, physician essayist, medical metaphor Citations: (optional ) 1.Vaisrub S: Medicine’s Metaphors: Messages & Menaces. Oradell, New Jersey: Medical Economics Books, 1977.2.Blum A: Remembering Sam Vaisrub. CHEST1982;81:134135.3.Blum A: Samuel Vaisrub, MD: clinician, editor, “amateur.” Arch Intern Med1982;142:449450.4.Blum A: Vasirub: good language with a light touch. CMAJ1982;127:307308. Type of presentation preferred: Research paper Novel humanities educational experiences Pan敬⁰牥s敮tation 潲k獨潰 Pec桡⁋畣桡 P敲fo牭ance Post敲⁰牥s敮tation Submi琠瑨isbs瑲ac琠to: CSI塍捍a獴er@gmail.捯m Deadline潲ubmi獳i潮: M楤湩ght ⡅ST⤠䩡nua特Ⱐ㈰19