Did you know that medicine was based on fantasy for two thousand years? Have you ever wondered why surgeons are not called doctor? Or how you tell the difference between a quack and physician? Do you know how medicine practiced before antibiotics or vaccinations? Or before doctors understood physiology? And why amazing medical breakthroughs seldom become part of clinical practice? <br />This collection of essays for the general reader tells with wry humour the surprising, unbelievable,...
