International Journal of Epidemiology 2003;32:910-915
© International Epidemiological Association 2003
The Doctor’s Dilemma
George Bernard Shaw
The Society of Authors, on behalf of the Bernard Shaw Estate. Reprinted with permission.
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It is not the fault of our doctors that the medical service
of the community, as at present provided for, is a murderous
absurdity. That any sane nation, having observed that you could
provide for the supply of bread by giving bakers a pecuniary
interest in baking for you, should go on to give a surgeon a
pecuniary interest in cutting off your leg, is enough to make
one despair of political humanity. But that is precisely what
we have done. And the more appalling the mutilation, the more
the mutilator is paid. He who corrects the ingrowing toe-nail
receives a few shillings: he who cuts your inside out receives
hundreds of guineas,
1 except when he does it to a poor person
for practice.
Scandalized voices murmur that these operations are necessary. They may be. It may also be necessary to hang a man or pull down a house. But . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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Why doctors do not differ
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Medical poverty
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Are doctors men of science?
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Statistical illusions
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The suprises of attention and neglect
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Stealing credit from civilization
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Patient-made therapeutics
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The reforms also come from the laity
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Fashions and epidemics
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The social solution of the medical problem
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The latest theories
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L. Donaldson
Commentary: The Doctor's Dilemma: a response
Int. J. Epidemiol.,
December 1, 2003;
32(6):
915 - 916.
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K S. Reddy
Commentary: Shaw's critique of health care is still valid
Int. J. Epidemiol.,
December 1, 2003;
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