Q: Are Doctors men of science? Discuss.
In this essay, Bernard Shaw ridicules the false pretensions of the medical profession. He says that a widely spread popular delusion is that doctors are men of science. According to Shaw, doctors are not men of science. He gives three reasons to illustrate his point of view. First, doctoring is an art not a science.
Doctors are no more scientific than their tailors. An educated man who reads scientific journals knows more.about science. Doctoring is an art of curing illness; it does not tell us how to maintain health. Secondly, science is another name of research. Most of the doctors do not conduct any of research.
They very rarely make any contribution to science! Lastly, the purpose of science is to serve humanity. A practising doctor has no such idea in his mind. He practises only to earn his bread. _
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