Is there a doctor-president in the house? The unhappy history of physicians as national leaders.(Culture Watch)(Column)

From: National Review | Date: March 8, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

THE practice of medicine requires the exercise of a dispassionate compassion. Doctors are sympathetic yet objective, concerned yet detached, involved yet observant, feeling yet unsentimental; in other words, they have precisely those qualities that one would wish to see in a political leader. Myself a physician, I have had ample opportunity to observe the medical profession from within, and I think I may safely say that, taken all in all, and viewed objectively, it is the finest body of men and women of which humanity can boast. No matter where a doctor may come from, therefore, I ...

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