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The average medical man is an educated gentleman, a delightful
companion, a man of parts, and many such are our best friends; but
doctors, when associated in corporate matters, are oftentimes too
self-seeking. It was the label
that signified the sign of the times, as Tom Wolfe had so ably detected
in Bonfire of the Vanities, that encyclopedia of an age of simulacral
futures and bonds and derivatives that "insulated"
(Wolfe's word) the Masters of the Universe from the stenches and
"trenches of the urban wars": "himself, with his noble
head, his Yale chin, his big frame, and his $1,800 British suit, the
angel's father, a man of parts.
The average medical man is an educated gentleman, a delightful
companion, a man of parts, and many such are our best friends. |
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