The reality for most of the signatories of the rebuttal letter is that they are more akin to medical technicians — making sure the thermometers gauging a fever are reliable — and radiologists — interpreting a CT scan — than
diagnosticians prescribing the appropriate treatment.
Not exact matches
As his friend and critic Stephen Spender has observed, Auden's stance in his early poetry is that of a
diagnostician: he describes the symptoms of the social and spiritual problems of the age and
prescribes love as the proper cure.