Among the most fashionable complaints today is a complaint about your doctor, one which has spread even to the profession itself. In fact, for a really scarifying complaint about doctors, you should hear some doctors; not that one is very likely to unless you are his receptionist catching a scrap or two at morning tea, or his spouse later in the day.

Everyone in and around the profession knows that there is something terribly wrong with the quality, and the delivery, of applied medicine. Anthony Moore, whose book looks into the matter, certainly knows it.