Diatribe on Doctors

I am holding what our Chinese friends would call a “Speak Bitterness Meeting” with my typewriter. The subject of my bitterness is Doctors; Medical Doctors, “Doctors Doctors.” Doctors, as a group, are no better, certainly no better, but also no worse than any other group of human beings. There are good and devoted Doctors, there are bad Doctors little better than medical racketeers, and there are the great majority who are somewhere in between. It’s our economic system that brings out the worst. Under our system the economically strong exploit and mercilessly plunder the economically weak. And who is stronger than those who have the power, real or imaginary, of life or death, sickness or health over us?

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