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Doctor Death

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Feb 08, 2022
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“To protect us against doctors there is no law against ignorance, no example of capital punishment. Doctors learn at our risk, they experiment and kill with sovereign impunity, in fact the doctor is the only one who may kill. They go further and make the patient responsible: they blame him who has succumbed.”

—Plinius Secundus, Naturalis Historia 29.19:

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