Doctors on Horseback Quotes

“It is against the background of such warfare [between medical professionals] that we must evaluate modern medical ethics. There has been much criticism of the code - which makes doctors, whatever their disagreement, present a united front to the public, and it has often been pointed out that by frowning on publicity the medical associations make it difficult for newspapers to find any one who will sponsor the truth about public health, but we must remember that the alternative is continual internecine warfare which makes an ignorant public the judge of matters beyond its comprehension.”
― James Thomas Flexner, Doctors on Horseback: Pioneers of American Medicine

“Down in Georgia, Dr Long used his influence against secession. He was an up-country Methodist who believed that the providence of God had permitted slavery in order to Christianize the Africans, and that once this object had been achieved, they should be gradually emancipated; he disapproved of the tidewater plantation owners and their aristocratic ways.”
― James Thomas Flexner, Doctors on Horseback: Pioneers of American Medicine