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The Cult of Medical School

Sounds Like A Cult

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The History of Medical School Cultiness

Medical students used to take the cadavers of recently executed heretics who'd like just been hanged in the town square they would take them donate their bodies to science slap them on this operating table. Medical textbooks at the time were treated as religious texts you weren't supposed to question them if some guy came in was like hey that's five an idea maybe we should like wash our hands before surgery  they would be like no witch heretic blaspheme like imprison him for having a new idea. Even though medicine is no longer still based on sort of religious belief pre-scientific method stuff there is still this godlike authority that that doctors have looking down on their patients but anyway yeah so

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