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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Createspace Independent Pub
Publication date
May 16, 2013
Pages
54
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9781484992739
ISBN-10
1484992733
Dimensions
0.13 by 6 by 9 in.
Weight
0.29 lbs.
Original list price
$6.99
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: 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, except when he does it to a poor person for practice. Scandalized voices murmur that these operations are unnecessary. They may be. It may also be necessary to hang a man or pull down a house. But we take good care not to make the hangman and the housebreaker the judges of that. If we did, no man's neck would be safe and no man's house stable. But we do make the doctor the judge, and fine him anything from sixpence to several hundred guineas if he decides in our favor. I cannot knock my shins severely without forcing on some surgeon the difficult question, "Could I not make a better use of a pocketful of guineas than this man is making of his leg? Could he not write as wellâor even betterâon one leg than on two? And the guineas would make all the difference in the world to me just now. My wifeâmy pretty onesâthe leg may mortifyâit is always safer to operateâhe will be well in a fortnightâartificial legs are now so well made that they are really better than natural onesâevolution is towards motors and leglessness, etc., etc., etc."
Editions
Paperback
from Createspace Independent Pub (February 13, 2016)
9781530031443 | details & prices | 74 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.17 in. | 0.36 lbs | List price $5.99
from Createspace Independent Pub (November 5, 2014)
9781502939661 | details & prices | 68 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.16 in. | List price $9.99
This edition also contains The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors
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This edition also contains The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors
About: "[.
from Createspace Independent Pub (May 20, 2014)
9781499612066 | details & prices | 54 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.13 in. | List price $6.99
This edition also contains The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors
About: It is not the fault of our doctors that the medical service of the community, as at present provided for, is a murderous absurdity.
This edition also contains The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors
About: It is not the fault of our doctors that the medical service of the community, as at present provided for, is a murderous absurdity.
The price comparison is for this edition
from Createspace Independent Pub (May 16, 2013)
9781484992739 | details & prices | 54 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.13 in. | 0.29 lbs | List price $6.99
This edition also contains The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors
About: It is not the fault of our doctors that the medical service of the community, as at present provided for, is a murderous absurdity.
This edition also contains The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors
About: It is not the fault of our doctors that the medical service of the community, as at present provided for, is a murderous absurdity.
from Createspace Independent Pub (August 10, 2012)
9781478397267 | details & prices | 134 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.31 in. | List price $8.00
About: George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 â 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics.
About: George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 â 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics.
from Book Jungle (June 30, 2009); titled "The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors: Preface on Doctors"
9781438520094 | details & prices | 101 pages | 7.50 × 9.25 × 0.50 in. | 0.44 lbs | List price $10.45
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