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Bookmark or Share- What to Do About a Physician Who May Be a QuackThe magazine’s Ethicist columnist on whether to report a doctor who gives many of her patients the same diagnosis and whether to help a daughter’s boyfriend with his college debts.
- Quacks, Plagues, and Pandemics | Science History InstituteThe term quack originates from quacksalver, or kwakzalver, a Dutch word for a seller of nostrums, medical cures of dubious and secretive origins. (Nostrums were the over-the-counter medications of the early modern world, available without a doctor’s prescription and taken at one’s own risk.)
- The Strange Tale of 19th-Century Quack Doctors - JSTOR DailyDuring the 19th century, write Janik and Jensen, quack “doctors” outnumbered legit ones three to one. A growing interest in science and a booming open market proved irresistible to businesspeople who rushed to bring products with dubious medical claims to health-starved consumers.
- QUACK DOCTOR definition and meaning | Collins English DictionaryAn unqualified person who claims medical knowledge or other skills.... Click for English pronunciations, examples sentences, video.
- Causes and consequences of quack medicine in health care: a scoping ...Quackery refers to unproven or fraudulent medical practices that there is no scientifically plausible rationale behind them.
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