Poor Dr. Ursus!
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* William J. Robertson

Poor Dr. Ursus!1 Don't you feel sorry for him, pining away because he doesn't have any really sick patients? Too bad he didn't live and practise 50 years ago when he wouldn't have had to get his kicks by sending patients for lab tests and imaging or referring them to internists or surgeons, but could have detected really sick people with his own ears and eyes and hands, and then have made them better.

In those days he could have done his own surgery and his own deliveries and given his patients their anesthetics himself. And he probably would have been very good at it all and would have been happy.

## Reference

1.  1. Query. CMAJ 2005;172(6):840.
    
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