A previous version of this article was posted on Doximity as ‘When Surgery Meets Superstition” on August 21, 2023. “Man is a dupeable animal. Quacks in medicine, quacks in religion, and quacks in politics know this, and act upon that knowledge. There is scarcely anyone who may not, like a trout, be taken by tickling…there is scarcely a disease for which a charm has not been given.” –
Surgery and Superstition
Surgery and Superstition
Surgery and Superstition
A previous version of this article was posted on Doximity as ‘When Surgery Meets Superstition” on August 21, 2023. “Man is a dupeable animal. Quacks in medicine, quacks in religion, and quacks in politics know this, and act upon that knowledge. There is scarcely anyone who may not, like a trout, be taken by tickling…there is scarcely a disease for which a charm has not been given.” –