that--my wife, for example,

比如我妻子
who is a primary care physician,

一个初级护理医师
says that about seventy-five percent of patients

说大约百分之七十五
who present themselves in a clinic have self-limiting illnesses,

出现在诊所的病人是自限性的疾病
or psychosomatic ones,

或是受心理因素影响的疾病
and mostly need reassurance that everything will be all right.

大多数需要一而再地保证一切都会好起来
So, the point about Hippocratic medicine was

所以希波克拉底医学的重点在于
that experienced physicians,

有经验的医师
accustomed to seeing ill people,

习惯于面对病人的医师
would be pretty good at prognosis and reassurance.

将对病人的确诊和预后有很大帮助
They would refuse to treat cases they regarded as hopeless,

他们拒绝治疗他们认为没有希望的病例
and hopeless cases, they also had a referral system--

对于这些病例他们也有一个转介制度