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Time for Reconciliation and Adjustment

North Carolina Memorial Hospital, Chapel Hill, NC 27514

We are gathered as doctors, doctors who have dedicated their careers to the care of the female. Thirty years ago Sigerist said: "From a private relationship between two individuals, medicine is rapidly becoming a social institution. It is one link in a great chain of social welfare institutions. Medicine, usually regarded as a natural science, actually is a social science because its goal is social. In combatting disease the physician uses methods of natural sciences every day, but to social ends." And even centuries earlier, Matthew, in answer to Pharisees who desired him to show them a sign from Heaven, "Ye can discern the face of the sky; but ye cannot discern the sign of the times?" (St. James version). He surely made a point. We have not fully discerned the sign of the times.