Q: How far would you agree that Shaw makes fun of the doctors. In his essay Are Doctors Men of Science? Bernard Shaw makes fun of the doctors in his essay.
Shaw has made a brutal attack on the pretensions of medical practitioners that they run their profession on scientific lines.
At best doctoring is the art of curing illnesses. Quacks and herbalists also do the same thing. The only difference between them is that the'doctors are officially authorised to sign death certificates whereas the either two are denied this “privilege and pleasure", otherwise all of them cure or kill in the same way?
Shaw may be right in his views, but he looks at the medical profession with a jaundiced eye and gives only a one sided picture. No doubt, there are black sheep in the profession whose sole aim, like quacks, is to earn money by hook or by crook; they do not desist even from adopting unethical practices’ or resorting to heretical methods to give fillip to their practice. But a vast majority of them are still ethical in their ways and do not step out,of the prescribed limits.
To keep people in good health is not the main object of the profession; that is the job of other people. Their duty is to cure the sick people and advise them how best they prevent the recurrence of the same illness.
Medical profession has made great strides* during the last fifty or so years. It has found* cures for diseases previously considered incurable. It is, In fact, surgery in which the profession has risen to great heights. Such operations as the removal of diseased appendix which were previously considered complicated have now become a routine. Heart patients with corneas and hearts has become common and given a new hope to otherwise hopeless patients.
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