“The family doctor is a figure without whom the family cannot exist in a developed society. He knows the needs of each member of the family, just as a mother knows their tastes. There’s no shame in taking to him some trivial complaint you’d never take to the outpatient’s clinic, which entails getting an appointment card and waiting your turn, and where there’s a quota of nine patients an hour and waiting your turn. And yet all neglected illnesses arise out of these trivial complaints. How many adult human beings are there, now, at this minute, rushing about in mute panic wishing they could find a doctor, the kind of person to whom they can pour out the fears they have deeply concealed or even found shameful?”
Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn, “Cancer Ward”, 1968.
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