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The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface
The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface
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give
the doctor away in public. And the doctors stand by one another at
all costs. Now and then some doctor in an unassailable position,
like the late Sir William Gull, will go into the witness box and
say what he really thinks about the way a patient has been
treated; but such behavior is considered little short of infamous
by his colleagues.
WHY DOCTORS DO NOT DIFFER
The truth is, there would never be any public agreement among doctors if they did not agree to agree on the main point of the doctor being always in the right. Yet the two guinea man never thinks that the five shilling man is right: if he did, he would be understood as confessing to an overcharge of one pound seventeen shillings; and on the same ground the five shilling man cannot encourage the notion that the owner of the sixpenny surgery round the corner is quite up to his mark. Thus even the layman has to be taught that infallibility is not quite infallible, because there are two qualities of it to be had at two prices.
But there
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