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Book Excerpt: givethe doctor away in public. And the doctors stand by one another atall costs. Now and then some doctor in an unassailable position, like the late Sir William Gull, will go into the witness box andsay what he really thinks about the way a patient has beentreated; but such behavior is considered little short of infamousby his colleagues.WHY DOCTORS DO NOT DIFFERThe truth is, there would never be any public agreement amongdoctors if they did not agree to agree on the main point of thedoctor being always in the right. Yet the two guinea man neverthinks that the five shilling man is right: if he did, he wouldbe understood as confessing to an overcharge of one poundseventeen shillings; and on the same ground the five shilling mancannot encourage the notion that the owner of the sixpennysurgery round the corner is quite up to his mark. Thus even thelayman has to be taught that infallibility is not quiteinfallible, because there are two qualities of it to be had attwo prices.But thereRead Mor
