"Doctors are human animals. They want to be loved, they are tribal, they instinctually favor stories over scientific evidence, they make mistakes, and even small gifts make them susceptible to being biased. If we took doctors seriously as human animals, we might hurt them - and they might hurt us - a lot less."

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About Alice Dreger

Alice Dreger is an American bioethicist, historian, and author. Her work focuses on medicine, ethics, and the history of science.

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