Medicine: Bloodgood v. Fear

Johns Hopkins' Dr. Joseph Colt Bloodgood is a cancer expert who always "goes the whole hog" on what excites him. Last week he arranged to blarney & bully the fear out of his patients. This is a recent reversal of Dr. Bloodgood's clinical attitude. Heretofore he has preached: get an early diagnosis, no matter if you must scare the wits out of the people. Anti-cancer propaganda has had a fear motif, condoned only for its salutary effect on a supposedly ignorant, obtuse public.

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